#people larping for a greater cause

[blood-orange-juice]

He's a glorified technician larping as an archmage.

Also a person in the process of messing with history because he didn't like how the other person messed with history before that.

"You would know what I am? I am the adjudicator of the sacred history with which you dared trifle." - Crystal Exarch, to Emet-Selch

This line always sends me. It was bad-ass in the moment but afterwards, when i thought about it... the sacred history. With which (Emet-Selch) dared to trifle.

The sacred history you're in the middle of trifling with? Because you all collectively decided you didn't like the one you got? So you came back to pull a mulligan on it? THAT sacred history?

Oh, Exarch, thy name is mud.

[redhoodinternaldialectical]

5, 16, 20?

Linking the original ask post cause it took some digging to find it again lol

Something you see in fics a lot and love:

B-boysss... kissing :3

lol okay uh the overwhelming majority of what I read is jaytim that's rated Explicit, so there's, ya'know, a lot of patterns in there that I've self selected for, but attempting to get into a more meaningful answer, I really like the way that fanfic repeatedly digs up old shit and uses it as a catalyst for characters to gain greater intimacy with each other. The constant reinvention and re-contextualization of Jason and Tim's various fights is neat to me

A tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate:

Oooh I'm gonna throw up the post I already made about the guy Jason manipulated into playing puppet for him

But that feels like cheating so I also want people to appreciate the asymmetrical aspects of the OG spoiler outfit, because I adore it so. I am a SUCKER for shoulder pads/spikes and 80s asymmetrical outfits.

Your very first fandom:

That's... actually pretty hard to answer.

The first online community I truly got involved with is City of Heroes. Loved playing the game when it was live, and I role played in the Homecoming servers for fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, for about five years. I still play every once in a while too! If you see Dread Captain Bones, David Drakal, or Cowboy Cline around, those are me :3 The only issue I have with saying it's this one is that I'm not entirely sure this counts as a fandom?? It really is more a role playing community than anything like a fandom for the game itself, most people only very lightly engage with the setting and it's considered a tad crass to get any of the named canonical characters involved with your character's story lines.

We could very technically count Naruto simply because that was the first one I ever tried to find fanfic for but uhhhhh... I started with ff.net with a super dark E rated fic because I thought E meant for Everyone and bounced off it so hard. I'm very sorry geisha AU naru-sasu fic I read when I was like thirteen, I tried so hard to like you, but my PTSD was not having it lmao

There's also half decent arguments to be made for Marvel comics, Doctor Who, or Vampire the Masquerade simply because my parents are/were such massive nerds lmao

Both of them did a lot of LARP and one of my favorite pictures of my mom is her as either the Sheriff or the Prince of our city ripping someone's heart out via a sponge soaked with fake blood :3 so yeah I def grew up learning about the clans and the lore and such

And this is very much a Marvel household lol My parents used to do story time with me about the X-men, and like they are completely accepting of my metal head and queer stuff, but I feel like it hurts my dad's soul just a little bit that I ended up being so into DC and so uninterested in Marvel. Whenever we talk about some of my (not romance related) plotlines for my DC fics he'll substitute in vaguely equivalent Marvel characters because he simply cannot be asked to dedicate braincells to DC characters lmao

Me: "I'm really looking forwards to writing out how the super geniuses and stuff push the limits of what Jason and Tim did to the diseases."

My Dad, knowing FULL WELL that I am not including any Marvel characters in this fic: "Oh yeah, Reed Richards would go nuts trying to figure that shit out."

My dad also collected Doctor Who episodes, like the ones from 1963 all the way to modernity, I grew up watching the black and white stuff, and for sure tumblr did expose me to Superwholock, through I never felt like I was a part of that.

It might actually be DC comics itself that's my first fandom! I just never really interacted with any sort of online or fandom space directly until Boostle dragged me into DC fandom's sphere of influence.

Anyhow I hope my ramblings were interesting/entertaining and thank you muchly for the ask! :3

[hadeschan]

item # K22C32

RARE Pra Somdej Nua Pong Gradookphee, Pra Archan Nuu, Wat Pho Tatian, Pim Taan Si Chan Pim Nak-leng Toh. A Buddha amulet with figure of a Buddha whose body is bulky as muscular man flexing his muscle seating on a 4 tiers platform, made from holy powder blended with human ashes and powder and fragments crushed from human bones after cremation. The human remains were taken from unclaimed bodies of casualties who were killed in World War II by a greater number of bombs dropped on Bangkok in BE 2484 (CE 1941). Those bodies were piled up at Wat Pho Tatian, and Pra Archan Nuu had his kindness to arrange proper funerals for them. This type of human bone amulet was intentionally made for saving people from bombing raids and hardship. This amulet has a trace of Chinese red lacquer coating, and it is peeling off through time.  Made by Pra Archan Nuu of Wat Pho Tatian (Wat Pra Chetupon Wimon Mangkhalaram), Bangkok from BE 2484 onwards.

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BEST FOR: Pra Pim Nak-leng Toh helps you win all fights, competitions, problems, arguments, and confrontations that you get involved in. You will NEVER be alone EVER, the spirits are with you everywhere you go. They are following you all the time. They watch your back, they protect you, and your family and prevent danger. They blinds people who are going to harm you. They cast magic charm and love spells on people around you. Pra Somdej of Pra Archan Nuu signifies continuous growth and multiplication in wealth, money luck, and good fortune. Wealth Fetching, Maha Larp (it brings lucky wealth), Metta Maha Niyom (it makes people around you love you, be nice to you, and willing to support you for anything), Maha Sanay (it turns you to Prince Charming in the eyes of women/men), Kaa Kaai Dee (it helps tempt your customers to buy whatever you are selling, and it helps attract new customers and then keep them coming back, Klawklad Plodpai (it pushes you away from all danger), Maha-ut (it helps stop gun from shooting at you), and warning of danger. Ponggan Poot-pee Pee-saat Kunsai Mondam Sa-niiat Jan-rai Sat Meepit (it helps ward off evil spirit, demon, bad ghost, bad omen, bad spell, curse & black magic, doom & misfortune and poisonous animals). And this amulet helps protect you from manipulators, backstabbers, and toxic people. And Baihuay, the spirits of the dead may tell/give hints of winning lottery numbers.

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Pra Somdej Pim Nak-layng Toh refers to Buddha amulet with figure of Buddha in meditating gesture, and the body of Buddha is bulky as muscular man flexing his muscle. Thais believe that this type of Buddha amulet is good for ruffian (a violent person, especially one involved in crime), Mafia Boss, Crime Prevention Police Officer, Park Ranger, Field Soldier and Nak-layng Poo Ying (a connoisseur of women / a womanizer).

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The Buddha amulet with a bas-relief of Buddha seating on a 4 tiers platform, the 4 tiers represents “Ariyasat Si” or the Four Noble Truths.

In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths are "the truths of the Noble Ones", the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones". The truths are:

1)dukkha ('not being at ease', "suffering," from dush-stha, "standing unstable," is an innate characteristic of the perpetual cycle (samsara, lit. 'wandering') of grasping at things, ideas and habits.

2)samudaya (origin, arising, combination; "cause"): there is dukkha (unease, disbalance) when there is, or it arises simultaneously with, taṇhā ("craving," "desire" or "attachment," lit. 'thirst').

3)nirodha (cessation, ending, confinement): dukkha can be ended or contained by the confinement or letting go of this taṇhā.

4)marga (path, Noble Eightfold Path) is the path leading to the confinement of tanha and dukkha.

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PRA ARCHAN NUU OF WAT PHO TATIAN (Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangkhalaram Rajwaramahawihan), living before BE 2495 (CE 1952)

Pra Archan Nuu was originally from Surin Province. Pra Archan Nuu was a Kuy ethnic minority (in Thai called Sùay)

The Kuy are found in a region of mainland Southeast Asia roughly between the Dangrek Mountains and the Mun River, straddling the borders where Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos meet. The majority, over 80 percent, live in Thailand in the provinces of Surin, Buriram, Sisaket, and Ubon Ratchathani.

After entering monkhood for years in Surin Province, Pra Archan Nuu walked across Thailand-Cambodia border on his pilgrimage in the rural provinces in Cambodia. During his visit to Cambodia, Pra Archan Nuu studied Khmer black magic, sorcery and witchcraft. After his journey back to Thailand, Pra Archan Nuu stayed at Wat Pho Tatian (Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangkhalaram Rajwaramahawihan), Bangkok and used his knowledge to cure outbreaks of disease, solved bad luck, performed magical rituals consisting of spells and charms that boost Metta Maha Niyom, luck and wealth, and conducted exorcism on demonic possession.

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THE PURPOSE OF MAKING AMULETS THAT CONTAIN HUMAN REMAINS

Bangkok was bombed by both the Japanese and Allies during World War II. According to a report of December 1945, the Allies dropped 18,583 bombs on Thailand, resulting in the death of 8,711 people and the destruction of 9,616 buildings, 617 trucks, 73 locomotives and 173 other vehicles. A further 1,194 buildings were damaged. The prime target of the campaign was Bangkok, the Thai capital. People lived in terror and shock of intense bombing raids, and they needed talismans and amulets associated with safety and protection. During those hard times people also had depression from social and economic impact. Pra Archan Nuu had his kindness to use his best efforts to make amulets for helping people. And many lives have been saved by amulets made by Pra Archan Nuu.

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THE AMULETS MADE FROM HOLY POWDER THAT CONTAIN HUMAN REMAINS

The amulet that was made from holy powder blended with sacred herb, holy powder and mystical minerals is known as “Pong Prai Kumarn Maha Phood”, the Guru Monks who have ability to make this type of Holy Powder must have “wí-chaa aa-kom” a high knowledge of magical spells and mind power to control spirits that come with human remains and those sacred herb, NOT every monk could make Pong Prai Kumarn Maha Phood.

The Guru Monk who made this type of amulet had to perform ritual ceremonies to turn / ordain ghosts (spirits) of the dead to “monks”, in Thai called “Buet Phee”. The ghosts (spirits) will not do any harm to the amulet wearers. Those spirits will only do good things and help the amulet wearers for their own merit. Those spirits would live in the amulets, and would not leave the amulets until their karma end, and circles of lives on earth start again, and each day in spirit world is equal to 100 ordinary solar years of our planet.

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CONTENT OF THE AMULET

- Wan Plong or Wan Gra-sue, a rare mystical plant, a half-human, half-plant creature said to consume fresh blood. This predator creature hunts in the night by floating in the air and glowing in the dark to capture its prey. The Wan Plong has magic power of Kongkraphan Chatrie (it makes you invulnerable to all weapon attack). Only powerful Guru Monk and powerful white Robe Master could feed and control Wan Plong.

- Holy Powder (Pong Itthijay, Pong Pattamang, Pong Maharaj, and etc)

- Powder crushed from human bones and ashes after cremation. The human remains were taken from unclaimed bodies of casualties who were killed in World War II by a greater number of bombs that were dropped on Bangkok in BE 2484 (CE 1941). Those bodies were piled up at Wat Pho Tatian, and Pra Archan Nuu had his kindness to arrange proper funerals for them.

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STYLE / PIM / MOLD OF THE AMULETS

Pra Pim Maat Tra Taan refers to styles of amulets and their contents are recognized by amulet competitions, and amulet identification companies, and the Certificate of Authenticity can be issued to certify their origins.

Pra Pim Yoi or Pra Nok Pim or Pra Pim Chao Bann refers to styles of amulets and their contents are still under discussion. And the research studies on their authenticity have not yet been completed. Pra Pim Yoi or Pra Nok Pim amulets are not recognized by today amulet competitions as well as amulet identification companies. In addition, many amulets made by Pra Archan Nuu, the styles are different from those that recognized, the molds were self-made by Looksit (disciples / followers / adherents / worshippers / devotees), but used the materials made by Pra Archan Nuu. And after the completion of all process, the amulets were also blessed by Pra Archan Nuu himself.

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*This amulet contains human remains. Not suitable for people who have Spectrophobia (the fear of ghosts). People who have Spectrophobia cannot control themselves while experiencing ghosts, they might have sudden cardiac death or cause harm to themselves from temporary loss of consciousness.

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DIMENSION: 3.20 cm high / 2.10 cm wide / 0.50 cm thick

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[souloffended]

I read a blog about automatic writing today, so I am going to try to experiment with that concept.

I wonder what the inevitable outcome of the experiment will be? I have absolutely no plan or idea for a topic, I am just writing...

Why is it such a good idea to write automatically anyway...

Who decided it was an effective meditation technique...perhaps I should have contacted the original poster and asked a few more questions

...at least asked for some source material.

Interesting, how often writing lacks sources. As if sources really make sense within the greater context of life...

Anyone and anything can be a source and their value or lack thereof is completely determined by subjective forces...

Trust has to be a major component in accepting source material. Trust is such a diluted concept, it may be impossible to clearly define such a vague concept.

Like altruism...is there really a such thing, or does the amount of trust required to believe in the concept make it benign by default.

Irrelevant is the word that comes to mind as I consider all of the factors that would lead to quantifying the amount of moral concessions that lead to acceptance of the trite circumstances that led to this extreme run on sentence.

This is rather fun. Perhaps this is a exercise I should only do on Thursdays. Create a bit of a ritual for my non-existent audience to consume;)

It is really funny, people meet me and question why I am not successful. I tell them point blank, I am an extremely private person who lacks a social network on which to expand an audience.

At which point I am advised to "get on Facebook"...and I am left wondering how many brain cells the individual in front of me actually has.

...People are not stupid. Not at all.

Like the smell of candles they faintly brush the air with their perfume but are quite ineffectual at excavating the vagrancies in the air.

One needs incense to raise the vibration. I have never heard of anyone burning their house down with incense, I am sure there is one person with the audacity to search google for the minimal instance that it occurred to prove me wrong.

They could just accept the fact that I am making the point that candles are a waste of resources and have a tendency to result in significant amounts of real property damage, but no...

They will bang on about statistics until they are blue in the face rather than investing in incense to purify the negative vibes they dispense by the mere fact of their presence.

It is 10:35 and I have committed to transcribing my thoughts for the next three to five minutes.

Supposedly this meditation is supposed to be a meditation so by partaking in this experience I should be able to obtain some measure of clarity of focus.

Like...maybe perhaps what I am planning to do with my life is not what I actually want to do with my life. However, being stuck between a rock and a hard place means making the decision that will cause the least amount of emotional devastation.

People do not really care how you feel, they just want you to answer their questions. No one owes anyone answers. Privacy is not some privilege dreamed up by bourgeoisie scholars on some beach in Athens. It is an actual total thing, and every individual should feel inclined to exercise a bit of agency over their own privacy.

Therapists are not doing anyone any favors. They are good to work out the trauma of witnessing an extreme act of violence or giving tools for acceptance and healing...but I mean, why give someone with the power to take away your life based on their perspective of the world the tools to do so.

Poor Kanye.

He got screwed.

I mean...he is a bit of a character. Those kinds of eccentricities come with artistic individuals. I am not entirely sure he was given the right diagnoses.

10 minutes later I am still writing and I have found this exercise to be mildly therapeutic.

I bet, if I used this technique to craft my LARP game it would work.

[sineala]

Tony Stark and Arthuriana

Coming to you by special request, a very long post about 616 Tony's interest in Arthuriana, with a focus on all of Tony's run-ins with Morgan le Fay!

I feel like I should disclaim the extent of my knowledge here, which is that I still haven't managed to read anywhere near every issue of Iron Man -- at least, not yet, anyway -- so I'm just going by the things I know I've read, and Morgan le Fay's Marvel wiki entry is frustratingly under-cited, so it's very possible I've missed something relevant, but I'm pretty sure I've got the big stuff down. My other disclaimer here is that I'm not as big an Arthurian nerd as Tony is, which is to say that most of my familiarity comes from modern retellings -- T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave, Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset -- and not so much the usual classic sources on the Matter of Britain, though I've read bits and pieces of them.

(This is because I wanted to read versions of them that were as close to the original as possible but so far have not ended up finishing any of them because, well, that's hard. So I've never read the Mabinogion because I do not know Welsh. I've got the Norton Critical Edition of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, which is probably the best student edition if you're looking for something without modernized spellings, as I was. I've also got -- well, okay, it's my wife's but I'm borrowing it -- a relatively recent Boydell & Brewer edition (ed. Reeve, tr. Wright) of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), which is, you guessed it, in Latin with a facing English translation. I haven't gotten very far in it because, in case you didn't know this about Latin texts, the beginning is pretty much always the hardest, so I gave up and read some Plautus adaptations instead. Anyway, if for some reason you too want to read Geoffrey of Monmouth in the original Latin I'd recommend that one, but I can't recommend any particular English translations because I've never read one by itself. I bet you didn't think you'd be getting Latin prose recommendations in this post. I mean, maybe you did; it is me, after all.)

Okay. Right. King Arthur. Here we go.

We've got:

Flashbacks to Tony's childhood in late Iron Man volume 1

A brief discussion of Morgan's origin story and Avengers #187

Iron Man vol 1 #149-150: Doomquest

What If vol 1 #33: What if Iron Man was trapped in the time of King Arthur?

Iron Man vol 1 #249-250: Recurring Knightmare

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom #1-4

Avengers vol 3 #1-4: The Morgan Conquest

Civil War: The Confession

Mighty Avengers vol 1 #9-11: Time Is On No One's Side

In terms of universe-internal chronology, we know from Iron Man #287, from 1992, that Tony has been a fan of King Arthur since childhood. This is an issue of a fandom-favorite arc which features Tony having a lot of childhood flashbacks, including the famous "Stark men are made of iron" line (in #286) that for some reason MCU fandom decided it loved; I mean, seriously, I've seen that quoted in way more MCU fic than 616 fic. But slightly later, in #287, we get an entire page devoted to Tony's love of King Arthur.

The narration reads: "Over the next few years, I learned as my father intended. Discipline of body. Strength of character. But in what free time I was allowed, I worked my way through the school's library. At thirteen, I discovered Mallory [sic], who showed me a whole new world. A world of dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Of chivalry and honor. And the fantastic deeds -- of armored heroes."

The art shows Tony as a child sitting under a tree, reading a book labeled Mort D'Arthur by Mallory [sic] -- no, don't ask me why nobody at Marvel checked how to spell either the name of the book or its author -- and daydreaming of King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, knights, et cetera. Just in case you somehow missed the extremely blatant hint that we are meant to understand that Tony's knight obsession heavily influenced him becoming Iron Man as an adult, we see one of his armors mixed in with all the drawings of knights. So, yes, canonically Tony is Iron Man at least partly because he's a giant King Arthur nerd, which I think is so very sweet. I love him. He's such a dork!

(This issue is currently in print in the Iron Man Epic Collection War Machine, should you need your own copy.)

This isn't actually the only reference to Tony as a King Arthur fanboy in this era of canon, either; a little later, in IM #298, we see that one of Tony's passwords is actually "Mallory." (Yeah, no, they still couldn't spell. But it's cute.)

But in terms of actual publication order, this is definitely not the first time we have seen in canon that Tony is into Arthuriana, as I'm sure you all know. I would assume, in fact, that giving Tony a childhood interest in Arthuriana is because Doomquest is one of the most beloved Iron Man story arcs of all time, and that all started at least a decade before IM #287 here was published.

The villain of Doomquest -- the one who isn't Doctor Doom, at least -- is Morgan le Fay. Yes, that Morgan le Fay. Yes, Arthur's evil half-sister Morgan le Fay. Yes, all of this King Arthur stuff is canonically real history on Earth-616. Morgan's first appearance in Marvel, per the wiki, was in Black Knight #1 (1955), which I have not read, and judging by the summary I feel like this is probably just supposed to be a straight-up comic retelling of Arthurian legends for kids; I don't think Marvel really had the whole Marvel Universe in mind as a concept in 1955, so I'm not sure this was meant to connect to anything else. I feel like this is another one of those instances of Marvel discovering that they can write comics about characters in the public domain for free -- like, I'm pretty sure that's how we also ended up with, like, Norse, Greek, and Roman mythology wedged into 616.

As far as I can tell from the wiki, the first time Morgan tangled with the Avengers (or indeed the larger 616 universe) in any way actually predated Doomquest -- it was in an early arc in Spider-Woman (#2-6) and then Avengers #187, which came out in 1979, actually right when Demon in a Bottle was happening over in Iron Man comics. If you read #187, Iron Man is not in it because he's off the team due to his drinking problem and also his accidentally murdering the Carnelian ambassador problem. So Wonder Man's filling in instead. This issue is part of Michelinie's rather sporadic Avengers run, which makes sense, I guess, considering where we see Morgan next.

Anyway, Avengers #187 is the classic issue where Wanda is possessed by Chthon, but what you may not remember from Chthon's backstory (I sure didn't!) is that he was summoned by Morgan le Fay because she was the first person who tried to wield the Darkhold to summon him. As you can imagine, this did not work out especially well for her and her followers and they had to seal Chthon away in Wundagore Mountain, which was where Wanda found him. (The Spider-Woman stuff is only slightly earlier and also appears to be about Morgan and the Darkhold; the Darkhold is not one of the areas of 616 canon I am especially conversant with, alas. It's on my to-read list.)

Doomquest, as you probably know, was a classic Iron Man two-parter in Layton & Michelinie's first Iron Man run that set up Tony and Doom as rivals; Doomquest itself was IM #149-150, in 1981, and then in their second IM run they came back and did a sequel in 1989, Recurring Knightmare (IM #249-250), and then the much later four-part sequel to that was the 2008 miniseries Iron Man: Legacy of Doom, which was also by Layton & Michelinie but generally does not seem to be as popular as the first two parts. They've all been reprinted, if you're looking for copies; I have a Doomquest hardcover that collects the first four issues and then a separate Legacy of Doom hardcover. Currently in the Iron Man Epic Collection line there's a volume called Doom, which confusingly only collects the 249-250 part of the storyline (as well as surrounding issues), because for some reason the first Layton & Michelinie run isn't in Epics yet but the second one is. So the beginning of Doomquest isn't currently in print, as far as I can tell. I'm sure you can find it anyway.

So what's Doomquest about? Okay, so you remember how Doctor Doom's mother's soul is stuck in hell for all eternity? Well, Doom's obviously interested in getting her back, and the strategy he has embarked on is to try to team up with other powerful magicians who can help him out, and he thinks Morgan le Fay would be a good choice, for, uh, his quest. Doom's quest. A Doomquest, if you will. (If you've ever read Doctor Strange & Doctor Doom: Triumph & Torment, you're familiar with the part where he later ends up waylaying Strange for this and they go to hell together. And if you haven't read Triumph & Torment, you really should, because it's amazing.)

So Doom is off to his time machine to go team up with Morgan le Fay and Tony thinks Doom is up to something -- Doom has been stealing components for his time machine from a lot of people, including Tony -- and he follows him and it turns out one of Doom's lackeys has a grudge and wants to trap Doom in the past forever, and Tony gets caught up in it. Now they're both in Camelot. Surprise! #149 is actually all setup; they don't get to Camelot until #150.

IM #150 begins with Doom and Tony thrown back into the past; there's a fandom-famous splash page of them locked in combat, only to realize that they have found themselves in Camelot.

They are then discovered by knights; Doom would very much like to attack them, but Tony, who naturally would be happy to LARP Camelot forever, persuades him to play nice. Also Doom thinks Iron Man is only Tony's bodyguard so he keeps referring to him as "lackey," much to Tony's annoyance. Somehow everyone thinks they're sorcerers. Can't imagine why. The knights take them to meet King Arthur himself, and Tony has clearly had his introduction all ready to go, as he introduces himself in a timeline-appropriate manner, says he's here to apprehend Doom, and demonstrates his "magic" by levitating Arthur's throne. Doom's response is essentially "I'm the king of Latveria," which is, y'know, also valid. So they're guests at Camelot for the night while Arthur figures out what to do with them.

We then have a page devoted to Tony alone in his room, musing sadly about how alien he feels, how he doesn't know if he'll ever get home, how he could never fit in here without his beloved technology. Then a Sexy Lady shows up to keep him company for the night, and he decides maybe it's not all bad. Thanks, Marvel. I guess they can't all be winners.

Doom is using his evening much more productively; he compels one of the servants to tell him where Morgan's castle is, because he's still interested in having that team-up. Then he jets off. Literally. He has a jetpack.

The next morning Arthur's like "one of you is still here and one of you has punched a hole through the castle wall and flown off to join Morgan so I guess I know which of you is more trustworthy." He then explains to Tony who Morgan is, because Tony professes ignorance, because clearly we had not yet retconned in Tony's love of Arthuriana. Tony offers to go fight Doom and Morgan with Arthur; meanwhile, Morgan and Doom have teamed up and Morgan has offered to help get Doom's mother out of hell if he commands her undead armies against Arthur because for Reasons she can't command them herself anymore. So that's a thing that happens.

So, yes, it's Tony and Arthur versus Doom and Morgan. Fight fight fight!

Tony tries Doom first but then decides to hunt Morgan down, and in the ensuing fight we get what I think is Tony's first ever "I hate magic," a complaint that we all know he still makes even to this day.

Anyway, Tony freezes a dragon with Freon (mmm, technology) and Morgan gets upset and disappears, so the battle comes to an end, and of course Doom is extremely mad at Tony because he blames Tony for Morgan not sticking around to save Doom's mom, because I guess Doom trusted her to keep her word? Weird. (Like I said, for the next chapter of Doom saving his mother, go read Triumph & Torment.)

Doom says if he and Tony work together, the components in both of their armors can send them both home. So Tony has to trust Doom. Which he does, because he really has no other choice. They build a time machine and Tony makes Doom agree to a 24-hour truce when they get back, so they can both get home. So it all works out okay, and they end up in the present, and Doom tells him, ominously, that they will meet again. Okay, then. That concludes the original Doomquest. It's fun! You can see why fandom likes it.

So that's all well and good, but you might have noticed that Tony's ability to get home hinged on Doom actually being trustworthy. And Doom was. But what if Doom hadn't been? What if he'd just stranded Tony in Camelot forever As you may have surmised from the form of that question, that is in fact a question Marvel asked themselves, because, yes, there's a What If about this! What If v1 #33 is "What if Iron Man was trapped in the time of King Arthur?"

The divergence point from canon, as you can probably guess, is the very end of Doomquest. Instead of Doom bringing Tony home, he deceives him and leaves him in Camelot. And since Tony cannibalized a lot of the tech from his armor to make the time machine, he doesn't have a way to go home.

This is not a story where Tony comes up with a way to go home after all. He really doesn't get to go home. But instead of drowning his sorrows in mead -- because, remember, Demon in a Bottle has already happened and Tony is sober now -- he decides he might as well just play the hand he's dealt. So with what's left of his armor, he defeats some enemies that Morgan rounds up to send against Camelot. And for his services, he's knighted. He is now Sir Anthony.

Tony acknowledges that he is both living the dream and would also like very, very much to go home.

He does end up having some fun in Camelot; it's not all miserable. But he obviously doesn't want to be there.

So if you're at all familiar with King Arthur, you know how this goes, right? Arthur fights Mordred and Mordred kills him. And that does happen in this version. Except Tony is right there, and with his dying words, Arthur asks Tony to rule Camelot... and Tony agrees.

So, yes, Tony Stark becomes king of the Britons after Arthur's death and he never goes home again. The end. Man, I love What Ifs.

Heading back to main 616 continuity, there is still more of this arc to go. The original Doomquest was only two issues, yes, but it was popular enough that Layton & Michelinie did a sequel a hundred issues later, in their second run of Iron Man, and that's Iron Man #249-250, Recurring Knightmare. (In the intervening issues were Denny O'Neil's IM run, specifically the second drinking arc (#160-200), and then Layton & Michelinie came back and most famously gave us Armor Wars (#225-232). I would have to say that Armor Wars is definitely the standout fandom-favorite arc of their second IM run; for their first one, I think a lot of people would have a hard time choosing between Doomquest and Demon.) But anyway, yes. Recurring Knightmare.

Recurring Knightmare is... well, the best way I can describe it is "a trip." It is definitely a sequel to Doomquest, and it is also definitely not a sequel you  would ever have expected to see for Doomquest.

Much like #149, #249 is pretty much just setup. Fun setup, but the big action is in the next issue. We open with Doom in Latveria, on his throne, pondering which of his servants he should have disintegrated. Anyway, he's just hanging out there when a mysterious object appears. In California, Tony is suited up and entertaining the crowd at a mall opening when the same object also appears! He takes it to his lab. Please note that this is after the Kathy Dare incident, so Tony is still recovering and is walking with a cane. Doom sees on the news that Iron Man has found the same object, which cannot be carbon-dated, and he shows up at Tony's house. He criticizes Tony's taste in art.

Anyway, Doom basically orders Tony to work with him. Tony refuses, and then Doom sends some robots to attempt to steal Tony's version of the object because he thinks if he has them both he will be powerful. Doom manages to steal it, and when he puts the pieces together, both he and Tony disappear.

So where do they go, you might ask? Camelot?

Not exactly. The future! There is a great callback to the Doomquest splash page.

It turns out they are in London in 2093. Merlin brought them there. Tony still hates magic. And in the future, King Arthur is still there, except he is now a child, because he has been reborn. But he does remember Tony from Doomquest, at which point Tony kneels. Doom, of course, is not impressed. He asks why they have been brought to the future.

The answer is that things are going wrong in the future. If you do not personally remember United States politics in the 1980s, I need you to google the words "Strategic Defense Initiative" right now. I'll wait.

Back with me? Okay, so this is a future where Reagan's Star Wars program actually happened the way he wanted it to, and the satellites are still hanging around the Earth in the future and messing everything up, and Arthur and Merlin need Tony and Doom's help to stop them. Doom once again flies away with his jetpack, of course.

Tony is game to help, but he's not in an armor that can stay in space for long. This is when Merlin takes him and Arthur to the mall and Tony manages to get everything to upgrade his armor at Radio Shack. You see what I meant about this issue being weird.

Tony is out in space trying to disarm the SDI platform, which is where he runs into his future descendant, Andros Stark, who is in armor you will probably recognize from Iron Man 2020. He is referred to as "the resurrected spawn of Iron Man 2020" so I assume he's actually directly related to Arno rather than a direct descendant of Tony; Wiki confirms that Arno is his grandfather. This is all from way before Arno was contemporaneous with Tony in canon. Anyway, he's fighting Tony.

Oh, by the way, Future Doom exists. Future Doom would like to rule this future Earth and for some reason Andros would like to help him. Meanwhile, Present Doom finds out from Merlin that he can't leave except by magic and he can't leave without Tony, so he is reluctantly on Tony's side.

They need help from the Lady of the Lake, except the lake has been paved over and is now a parking lot. Merlin makes the lake come back and then of course they get Excalibur. Arthur is a kid, so he can't wield a longsword; Doom assumes he's going to take it because he is basically a king, and he's pretty grumpy when the sword picks Tony. Tony then uses Excalibur to destroy the space lasers, and I bet that is a sentence you never thought you would read. It's pretty cool. Tony concludes that magic has its good points. Tony stops Andros and Doom stops, uh, himself, and the world is saved and they get to go home. Also, Doom finds out Tony is Iron Man, but when Merlin sends them back he conveniently erases their memories, so neither of them remember anything about this and Tony's secret is still safe. And that's the sequel to Doomquest.

And if you think that's weird, wait until you see Legacy of Doom.

Iron Man: Legacy of Doom is a four-issue miniseries from 2008, also by Layton and Michelinie. Even though it's from 2008, it's set during a much more classic time in Iron Man, continuing on from where we left off in this Doomquest saga. We start with a framing story in 2008. Tony, who has Extremis now, is busy scrapping some of his older armors and reviewing his logs when he suddenly remembers that there was a whole thing with Doom that happened that he seems to have forgotten about until right now. So the whole thing is narrated by Tony in flashback.

Tony's in space fixing a satellite when a hologram of Doom shows up and summons him to Latveria. It's not really clear why Doom needs Tony's help in particular here, but Doom tells Tony that he's discovered that Mephisto would like to bring about the end of the world, which Doom finds, and I quote, "presumptive." So Doom has his Time Cube, and with it he takes Tony to hell.

(Yes, I promise this is relevant to Doomquest. There will be some Arthuriana shortly.)

Doom brings Tony to Mephisto, and it turns out it's a setup! Doom trades Tony for an item he wants from Mephisto, leaves, and Tony's going to be trapped in hell forever! Oh no! (I mean, he's not. But it's quite a cliffhanger.)

At the beginning of issue #2, we find out what the Arthurian connection is, which is that we learned that after the events of Doomquest, Morgan had been granted sanctuary by Mephisto in exchange for a shard of Excalibur that she had somehow stolen. Doom still wants Morgan's help with some magic -- he doesn't mention what it is here, but he says he needs someone of Pendragon blood, and that'd be her -- so he traded Tony to Mephisto in exchange for, I'm guessing, Morgan and the Excalibur shard.

I have probably mentioned this elsewhere, but Legacy of Doom #2 is one of my favorite issues of Iron Man ever, solely because of the next scene. We return to Tony in hell. Howard Stark is also in hell, and he is now a demon, and Tony has to fight him. Mephisto brings popcorn and watches. This is the one time in canon when Tony actually confronts his father, and okay, yes, it's a fistfight in hell and Howard is a demon, but that's comics for you. Howard spends several pages insulting Tony -- specifically insulting his masculinity, but that's a whole other essay -- until he finally insults Maria too, and that's when Tony fights back, because his mother taught him to be good. Honestly if you're a Tony fan I'd recommend this issue just for that scene.

Anyway, we go back to the Doom and Morgan plot, and Morgan casts the spell Doom wanted, which was fusing the Excalibur shard with Doom's armor. Then Doom sends her back to Camelot rather than hell, because he's still mad that she never helped him get his mom out of hell like she said she would.

Tony freezes Howard with Freon -- yes, the same trick he pulled on the dragon back in Doomquest -- and tells him, "You're no father of mine." It is immensely satisfying.

(I had been going to mention that I thought it was a shame that neither canon nor fandom seems to have really engaged with this confrontation, and I know canon never believes in narrative closure but fandom sure does -- and then, anyway, it occurred to me that since the framing story of Tony remembering this is set when Tony has Extremis, there's a very good chance that he no longer remembers remembering it. Goddammit, Marvel.)

(If I got to retcon one canon thing about Tony, I think "the entirety of World's Most Wanted" is up there. I mean, okay, a lot of things are up there, but WMW is definitely on the shortlist.)

Okay. Tony has now engineered his way out of hell, and he's back with Doom in Latveria. Doom has Excalibur. Doom would very much like to fight him. While wielding Excalibur. You get the sense that this is going to be bad. Another cliffhanger!

Legacy of Doom #3 opens with Tony destroying Doom's lab to buy time and running away from Doom and Excalibur. I should probably mention that Doom still doesn't know Tony is Iron Man (anymore), so he thinks he is dealing only with Iron Man, Tony Stark's lackey. Meanwhile, some scientists at SI think there's something weird going on with space. Meanwhile meanwhile, Tony is in a forest taking a breather when a mysterious old man walks up to him.

It's Merlin! Surprise! Merlin wants Tony's help to stop Doom from doing whatever he's doing with Excalibur. The sword makes you invincible and the scabbard makes you invulnerable, so Merlin sends Tony to Scotland on a fetch quest for the scabbard. Doom has now magically sent the sword in search of the scabbard, so the sword flies away to meet it and Doom follows. Turns out the thing that's wrong with space is a thing that's going to hit Earth at the exact place Tony and Doom are. What a coincidence! So Tony and Doom get trapped in a stone circle and fight some stone warriors and then Tony ends up with the scabbard. And by "ends up with," I mean it fuses to his armor. Next issue!

Legacy of Doom #4 is when things really, really get weird. A giant demon made of eyes (???) appears, and this demon is apparently what Doom had been preparing to fight (because it's mad that Doom stole one of its spellbooks), and now he can't, because the sword and the scabbard aren't together. Thanks, Shellhead.

That's when Merlin shows up and says all is not lost. They can defeat the demon... if they put the sword into the scabbard.

"But I'm the scabbard now!" Tony says, uncomprehending.

"Yes," Merlin says. "You are."

Then Tony gets it.

So, yes, Doom has to, um, penetrate Tony. With Excalibur. I love comics. I love comics so much.

So that's a thing that happens.

And then Tony flies off and, I guess, resolves to never, ever think about any of this again.

We head back to the framing story, in which Tony, now having remembered all of this, flies to Britain, buys the land the lake is on, and paves it over, presumably so it will be there for Merlin to bring back in Iron Man #250. The end.

Whew.

Okay, yeah, I know I didn't have to summarize the whole thing, but Legacy of Doom here really is one of my favorite Iron Man miniseries. And I just want to share the love. Please read it. It's great.

But the Arthuriana fun doesn't end there! In fact, now we get an Arthurian-themed arc that actually isn't in Iron Man comics. It's in Avengers! Iron Man is involved, though.

(There is also apparently a Morgan arc in Avengers #240. I actually haven't read it. It seems to be yet another Spider-Woman arc. I get the impression that this isn't really Arthuriana other than having Morgan in it fighting Jess, though, so it doesn't seem quite as relevant. Morgan also apparently has some appearances in FF, Journey into Mystery, and Marvel Team-Up, but those seem like more of just basic villainy. Also, probably not involving Tony.)

Kurt Busiek's 1998 Avengers run, volume 3, is in large part the kind of Avengers run that is a nostalgic love letter to older comics. Heroes are heroes and villains are villains and good triumphs over evil. The Avengers all live in the mansion and are BFFs. I love it. It does assume that you are already a fan of the Avengers, because it starts out by summoning pretty much everyone who has ever been an Avenger and is available to the mansion, and that is... a lot of people. Thirty-nine, by my count. Also, when the entire team is magically whisked away, we are treated to the following narration, as Steve disappears: "And Captain America's last thought, as the world goes white around him, and he with it -- is that Iron Man would hate this."

The narration doesn't tell you why Iron Man would hate this, or how Captain America would know that Iron Man hates this. This is not explained later on. But if you have read comics -- or if you have read the above summary of Doomquest -- you know that Tony is absolutely, one hundred percent, thinking, "I hate magic." And Steve knows it.

The reference is not relevant to the plot; if you don't get it, you'll be fine. But that's what I mean when I say this is a nostalgia run. There are definitely Easter eggs for people who have read a bunch of comics. Busiek does this a whole lot in his work -- there's a reason you can buy an annotated edition of Marvels -- and, yeah, it happens here too. Just know that there will be references you're not getting, if you're new to comics.

Anyway. So Busiek's run actually starts out with an Arthurian arc, #1-4, "The Morgan Conquest." The name is a dead giveaway. Yes, Morgan le Fay is back. Again. For once, Doom is not involved.

The Avengers are all back from their sojourn on Counter-Earth after fighting Onslaught -- don't worry about it -- and mysterious things are happening. There are a lot of monster attacks. So pretty much everyone who has ever been an Avenger is summoned to the mansion, at which point we learn from Thor about some mystical artifacts that are being stolen. (They are the Norn Stones and also the Twilight Sword. That sounds like something from a Zelda game, doesn't it?) The Avengers go to try to stop this, end up in Tintagel, and then they run into Mordred. He wants to capture Wanda, presumably for Magic Reasons. Morgan le Fay casts a spell on all of them, reshaping reality. Yes, all of them. Surprise!

So now all the Avengers are living in a medieval castle and/or town; Morgan is their queen, and thanks to the power of mind-control they are all basically living in Ye Olden Times. The Avengers are all some variety of knight, except for Wanda, who is chained up in the dungeon so Morgan can steal her magic and use it to fuel all this reality-warping.

Wanda calls for help, and that snaps Steve (Yeoman America!) out of the mind control (or altered reality or whatever you want to call it) pretty fast, because Steve's always been very good at resisting mind control, and then Steve promptly goes and snaps Clint out of it, because I guess Steve is also good at inspiring people to snap out of mind control. "Oh, man!" Clint says. "Not another alternate reality! Not again!" (I assume he's referring to Counter-Earth? Maybe?)

So Steve and Clint go around reassembling the Avengers and orienting them as to reality. They get Jan and Monica easily, but then Steve insists on trying to get Tony because, I guess, he likes Tony and would really like to hang around Tony, who is half-naked and asleep in his bedroom, and certainly I am reading nothing whatsoever into this. Clint tells Steve it's not going to work. Tony has historically been fairly susceptible to mind control; it was only pretty recently at this point that he'd been doing Kang's bidding in The Crossing. But the more serious impediment is that this is Tony Stark and he would obviously like to LARP being a knight forever and ever. Tony, therefore, does not believe Steve, and throws him and Clint out of his bedroom and into the barracks.

"Iron Man's a good guy, normally," Clint says. "But he's waaay too into his whole nobleman/lord of the manor trip. That spell musta hit him right where he lives!"

Clint speaks the truth, clearly.

Anyway, they go around and manage to make pretty much every Avenger in the room other than Tony snap out, and attempt to rebel against Morgan while Tony is stil fighting them because he is Still A Knight. There's a lot of punching, because some of the Avengers still aren't free; they weren't ones Steve found.

The day is saved when Wanda manages to channel Wonder Man and break free. This gives the Avengers a fighting chance against Morgan and the Avengers are all lending Wanda their power when Tony finally snaps out of it and is on the side of good. 

Then they take Morgan down, go home, and attempt to figure out which of these thirty-nine people should be on the active Avengers team. Hooray.

But that's not the end of Morgan le Fay showing up to screw around with Tony's life! There's more to come! Not much, but there is one that I know of, and at least one more memorable reference. 

(I haven't read all her appearances or anything, but one of them definitely involves Tony; I can't swear that he doesn't appear in any of the other books Morgan shows up in, but it'd be a cameo for him, because I only know of one more arc that she's in in a book that Tony stars in.)

In a few more years, we have now entered the part of Marvel Comics history where Brian Michael Bendis writes all the Avengers books at the same time for, like, seven years running. It was sure A Time. There were a lot of word bubbles.

And the thing about Bendis is, Bendis looooooves Doomquest. If you're familiar with the very end of his tenure at Marvel where he made Doom be Iron Man after Tony got knocked into a coma in Civil War II, you have probably figured out already that he likes Doom. But he also likes Doomquest, specifically.

I mean, if nothing else, the giant splash page in The Confession where Maleev redrew the climactic Doomquest fight while Bendis had Tony talk about how deeply meaningful to his understanding of the world this all was -- and how it allowed him to predict Civil War -- was probably a big clue, right?

As far as I am aware, Morgan le Fay makes exactly one more appearance in Tony's life. And that's in Mighty Avengers vol 1 #9-11. Only one of those issues is named, so I'm going to assume the arc is named after it: Time Is On No One's Side.

You remember Mighty Avengers, right? The deal with the Avengers books at the time was that after Bendis exploded the mansion and made the team disband in Avengers Disassembled, the main Avengers book was no longer called just Avengers. Instead, the main Avengers book was New Avengers, and that was the only Avengers book. Then Civil War happened, Steve got killed, and New Avengers became the book about what was left of the SHRA resistance (i.e., Steve's side) after the war. So about halfway through New Avengers, Mighty Avengers starts up, and Mighty Avengers is about an extremely fucked-up and grief-stricken Tony Stark trying to run the official government-sanctioned Avengers team, with Carol's help. This is the comic with the arc where Tony turned into naked girl Ultron. You remember.

So, anyway, there's this Mighty Avengers arc where Doom is Up To Something (there are symbiotes and a satellite involved) and somehow Tony and the Avengers end up in Latveria, punching Doom. Also, by the way, Doom is visiting Morgan in the past because he likes her. The Avengers attacking his castle made him have to come back to the present, so he's kind of cranky. And he fights Tony, and in the course of the fight, his time platform explodes and sends Doom and Tony and also the Sentry to... the past.

This is one of those times where you should definitely look up the comics if possible because the way the past is visually indicated here is that it's colored with halftone dots the way you would expect old comics to be colored, although they have modern shading and color palettes. It's very charmingly retro.

So the three of them are stuck in New York in the past, and naturally they would like to leave. There's one person in this time who has a time machine and it is, of course, Reed Richards. Doom and Tony have a lot of banter in this arc; I think it's entertaining.

Sentry has to be the one to break them all into the Baxter Building because of that power he has where no one will remember him. So they do that, travel forward in time, and end up in Latveria in the present again except Doom is gone and also things are currently exploding where they are.

Doom, of course, has made a side trip to visit Morgan again and he asks her to help him build an army, because I guess this is what their relationship is like. So the rest of the Avengers are captured by what look to me like Mindless Ones and are in a cave in magic bondage, because comics. Jess comments that at least they aren't naked, because she too is remembering that memorable New Avengers trip to the Savage Land. Doom threatens Carol in some creepy sexist ways and eventually it turns out that Tony and the Sentry are fine and everyone kicks Doom's ass. Business as usual.

And the last page of the arc is Morgan alone, wondering where Doom is. So technically Morgan and Tony don't come face to face here, but I think she counts as being at least partially responsible for ruining Tony's day here. And then Secret Invasion happens and Tony has a very, very bad day.

There are a few more Morgan appearances after this, but, as I said, I don't think any of them involve Tony. She shows up in Dark Avengers, apparently, which was one of the post-Civil War Avengers titles I didn't read, and I know that recently, on the X-Men side of things, she's been in Tini Howard's Excalibur one, which I have only read a little of. No Tony there. Just a lot of Morgan and Betsy Braddock and Brian Braddock and the Otherworld.

If you are interested in Morgan's other appearances, you might like this Marvel listicle that is Morgan le Fay's six most malicious acts. I pulled some of the Darkhold backstory from their discussion, but it's not really focused on Morgan and Tony.

So there you have it! That's everything I know about Tony's love for King Arthur and every run-in I know about that he's had with Morgan le Fay! One of two terrible people in Tony's life named Morgan! Actually, I don't think we've seen Morgan Stark in a while. I wonder if he's alive. There should be a Morgan & Morgan team-up. I should probably stop typing and post this.

The tl;dr point is that you should all read Doomquest and its sequels, especially Legacy of Doom. They're great!

[grandpasessions]

'There was nothing left for us here, everyone I knew felt reluctantly guilty for feeling lost, as if being lost was hesitantly, but most definitively, part of who they were.' 'The atomization had gone further than anyone ever thought it would, our own identities had fragmented into various abstractions of consumption; brands, shops, sexualities, traits, habits, software stacks, video games, TV series, cinematic universes, foreign food, reading lists, alternative spiritualities, ironic adherence to tradition, theological LARPing, this is what remained, ashes of reality scattered into the simulacrum for us to pick and choose from. Every morsel of personality and ego had become tethered to a commodifiable life-choice. I no longer knew any-one, only assemblages of pithy statements, purchases, and vices; what was anyone except a culmination of their hedonistic desires and shallowly pronounced social virtues?' 'Once your understanding has been replaced everything else falters rather sharply; meaning in general collapses and everything is transferred into a system of third-party checking, as opposed to personal investigation and belief. Nothing felt as if it were ever mine, nor as if I'd ever earned it, and that's because what was earned was backed by nothing.' '... It just did not stop, not for a moment; the clearest symptom of modernity is that all time was to be filled, and it didn't matter what filled it, as long as there was continual noise, static to be utilized as ignorance of [a] cosmic predicament.' 'Can it be considered sleepwalking if it encapsulates one's entire life? If one is asleep for the entire [e.d], then that quickly becomes one's reality.' 'The reason people purchased things relied on another abstract reason ad infinitum; the reason people did anything likewise relied on the will of another, rarely did one witness a man take it upon himself to act, buy or say something which arose from his wellspring of authenticity, there was always something else controlling his strings. And that's what modernity is, a material labyrinth of puppet-masters who are all interconnected and cordial, a multiplicity of effects trying to hide their causes, because once you get to the cause you can start to question it, until that moment of apprehension, anything you attempt to grasp immediately disappears. At all turns, man is left with another turn.' 'There is a difference between knowledge and understanding and the academy laps up the former without paying a moment's notice to the latter. To understand something is to take one's time, it is to draw its breath, and potentially act in accordance; the academy is bodies without souls, vessels to be filled, and upgraded. Graduate, post-graduate, and lecturer are beings of their own kind, molded by the suffocating atmosphere of strict interpretation. How can one talk of interpretation if there is only one?' 'I could not stand the paths I needed to take to supposedly acquire that which I desired, what I desired among all things, or so I believe at the time, was to gain an understanding of the world which allowed contentment, a teleology towards a personal peace. ... into the heart of familiarity I desired to go.' 'To think for oneself had become increasingly difficult, every structure and institution since birth had been constructed in such a way as to covertly remove all personal responsibility for individuals, and from there had since set up a monopoly where a heart and vision once laid.' 'The plan was a form of neo-asceticism, strip it all back; throw it back in their faces by way of refusal.' 'And therefore those who took interest were these [weird, odd, strange, peculiar] things also, and as such, status did the rest; eventually, all that came of the academy was an acceptance of those alike those accepting, dry, strained, professional and meek; I could call it a racket, but that would be too exciting, for its reality was one of a waiting room, the texts I once loved became cheap magazines strewn over its floor whilst I waited for my bureaucratically monitored acceptability rating.' '... one should only laugh at those who proclaim that truth is on the side of misery, for what can misery be but only understood as a solely human affair; the cosmos doesn't understand misery as much as we don't understand the passions of a boulder. To align misery, suffering, and decay with an abstract bleaker-than-thou truth is to make the same anthropocentric errors as those which you proclaim to hate. Many, myself included, wish there was more horror, for at least then there would be interest in the world.' 'To betray the pro-herd is to revere the anti-herd.' 'What the herd yearns for is not a life, but a pen. Who could blame them? With a pen comes purpose, something easy to moan about. Lyotard was right in Libidinal Economy when he declared that the working-class desire their subjugation - 'the English unemployed did not become workers to survive, they - hand me tight and spit on me - enjoyed the hysterical, masochistic, whatever exhaustion it was of hanging on in the mines, in the foundaries, in the factories, in hell, they enjoyed it, enjoyed the mad destruction of their organic body which was indeed imposed upon them, they enjoyed the decomposition of their personal identity. ... man finds his meaning in the collective in the very same way he finds meaning in masochism, by perpetually perusing his mandatory service, he seeks a greater and greater denial of his desire and potential. Yet, even if he were to go looking for it he'd be too scared to confront it.' 'This is what is comforting about the collective for your common drone, the ongoing, incessant, and indulgent whining and moaning, the oh-so-cumbersome depressions and anxieties brought about by the most minor of stresses and tensions, the adherence to a blank slate of tranquility and extravagance a priori. Lo-and-behold the user finds a shit-smeared socius, bulging at the seams with repressions, constraints, containments, rules, laws, taxes, usury, masters, cutbacks, limitations, diminutions, and attentuations, all of which are gorged upon by willing individuals, not in moments of begrudging compliance, but as purpose, as meaning.' 'I had no connection to nature, to family, to tradition, to root or stem, I was -- as all are now -- my own personal atom of modern ecstasy, economics, and envy. You could state with ease that this was some form of nihilism personal to me, or my immediate surroundings, except it wasn't, that's not how nihilism works. Nihilism is behind it all, there is the gloss of objects and apparel and the illusion of the subject. ... If there is such a thing as nihilism it's so indiscernible from the actions of the average modern man that it eventually begs no division of definition.' 'Where everyone was headed was precisely nowhere, but this too was an empty truism that helped precisely no one.' 'Also, one must cast off all material pleasures, a feat easily achieved for it feels like a virtue, but one must too cast off all material sufferings, the ones they most enjoy, depression, anxiety, malaise, melancholy and despair, those sufferings which are so indulged in on an almost constant basis, so much so that they covertly become pleasures; there's little meaning for modern man other than a common depression; Oh, the suffering! Oh, the despair! Oh spare me your shivers and whines and submit your body to all that is chthonic.' 'I found nothing that could offer me suffering, let alone relief or contentment.' 'I had burned through life's most basic settings at the rate of modern man in overdrive; I wanted more of the more. This had left me feeling alienated and lonely and listless. People who want something have a direction, those who have lost something do too, any cessation can give man meaning rather quickly, but what about an apathetic cessation of apathy brought about by apathy?'

The Methodology of Possession // James Ellis

[mynameisdreartblog]

Fish 1

Aries: Clownfish. God, wouldn’t it be so cool if, at a party, the piñata would just burst into a bunch of blood and guts instead of candy? Wow, how dark and grim of a concept is that? I bet you’ve never seen someone with a fucked-up imagination as much as me. I was born in the flesh mounds and the darkness embraced me. I’ll get my new idea pitched to Fox and they’ll air it right next to The Simpsons. I’m gonna be so damn famous with my original dark comedy with intense shock value. I don’t care about anyone’s feelings, aw yeah. This is how we make it in this brutal world where everyone prioritizes their feelings over facts: by showcasing the ugly truth of our current society on the big screen. You might say that I’m an ignoramus that lacks any semblance of self-awareness, but I say that you’re underestimating my ability to make the momentous connections that’ll blow the current consensus out of the water. One thing we all assumed to be true was that you’re staunchly against your argumentative opponent, but the truth is that you’re secretly just like them! I have no claims to back this up, but the sheer dramatism of such a statement makes it bound to have some form of truth within it. It seems as if y’all can’t handle my sheer intellectualism. I don’t blame you, ‘cause it takes a lot of mental effort to project this much.

Gemini: Cuttlefish. Have you ever thought about how much an asshole Batman is? I mean, the dude’s a bourgeois playboy who only accomplishes maintaining the status quo in his form of “justice”. Like, what a dick. Not only that, I also question the dude’s mental state. Are you gonna tell me that the person who, after witnessing his parents’ murder, decides that the best course of action is to dress up like a bat and kill people is a rational person? I think not. To be real here, I’m not even a big fan of Batman, I just think that it’s pretty obvious that this moral complexity to Batman’s actions should be discussed more, if it’s not already a hot topic in the fanbase. I grew up and thought that Bruce Wayne was a hero, and that I should emulate his way of thinking, until somebody called me out and then I realized that Batman is actually the perfect example of how helpful corporate philanthropy actually is: he thinks he’s aiding a population by using all of his fancy toys, but he only makes things worse as he doesn’t use his power to solve overarching issues affecting Gotham. Sure, he may defeat the Joker one time, but locking him up in an asylum only stops him temporarily; he doesn’t try to solve what caused the Joker to come into existence in the first place. Honestly, you have to be a little crazy as well if you work or contribute to asylum.

Scorpio: Anglerfish. Recently, there’s been a phenomenon of battle royale games taking over the market and getting into the facet of every teenager’s life. It’s more like a disease than a craze at this point. Pretty much every dork at your school comes, with snot dripping down their face, asking you whether or not you play Fortnite or whatever it’s called. I think there’s some activism that needs to be taken against this wave of crap flooding the ever-so-precious video game market. Since I have literally nothing else to do with my life but become over-concerned with the state of video games, I guess I should take this up as a noble cause. It is now decided, by the order of gaming, that I must defend video games against themselves. But wait a minute, there’s a dark and authoritative presence that looms over us. It’s not too much of a hunch to believe that it seeks to halt us in our plans to stop PUBG or whatever. Oh no, how dare they put gaming culture at risk? Don’t they know how important preserving the integrity of gaming culture is to us? Do you feel something grab you from behind? Oh God, it’s your parents, and they’re very concerned about our sincere passion for criticizing battle royale games. They say it’s been destroying our lives, but I disagree, for it’s this genre of games that’re destroying the lives of players! And… I can’t LARP like this anymore; screw this.

Capricorn: Seahorse. A furred creature shows glimpses of itself when you make haste for your car in the exposed garage. It occasionally pops out the corner of your eye and you confuse it for a stray cat. After first sighting it, you start developing more hallucinations (well, more than usual): ones of greater and deranged variety. It creeps up ever so subtly in the unchecked rooms you glance past while grabbing a bite to eat. There’s nothing there, but it doesn’t feel that way. The sink was left running last night. It goes on like this for nine days. [...] You decided, one day, that you’re sick of these illusion and the consistent sound of running faucets; guess it’s time to actively look for trouble now. You take up your rifle and you search for it in your yard: where you think you last saw it. [...] To your dismay, it never showed its face that night. This morning however, a woman dressed in olden garbs ran down your driveway, with a look of absolute fear on her face. She was squealing at you to move, but move from what exactly? We could be interpreting this situation wrongly, because, for all we know, she may’ve been referencing what’s been boggling your mind for the last nine. It’s irresponsible of you to act like this current situation had nothing to do with you. You’re the one who went into your yard, with a loaded gun, to try and hunt down something that may or may not exist. She’s probably terrified of you more than anything. [...] It lingers.

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Alien Voice Hijacks TV Station's Broadcast from the ASHTAR Command [Part 1/2]

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Alien Voice Hijacks TV Station's Broadcast from the ASHTAR Command [Part 1/2]

Howdy all people welcomes to wait where is Rob? I dont recognize, i suppose i’m doing this one by myself. Good enough welcome to edge of surprise where the unusual meets the profound. I am your host Ben and on this episode. I would like to interrupt this broadcast to give the sector an awfully particular announcement I just discovered the pleasant inexpensive taco situation on eighth avenue. Err, well that’s fine Rob but we aren’t talking about food here, we have got to do this episode on the 1977 broadcast from the Ashtar Command.Dude there were Tacos in seventy seven lets roll Radiofaces intro and in poor health finish up these tacos and are available and meet you in the place of business in a 2d this is the voice of Vrillon, the representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command talking to you. What could this message for the human race really imply? And the way does it relate to our constellation? Who or what is the Ashtar Galactic Command and what different names might they go by way of? What if they are who they are presupposed to be what’s their cause right here and why did they try to make their presence recognized to us? Was once it readily a warning to make better choices sooner or later Or is anything much greater at stake? All of this and more simplest on the threshold of wonder! Wow you guys such an terrific intro. So not definite what number of of you guys knew about this, I didnt rather find out about it until after we began EOW. But what about you Rob I was once most effective vaguely conscious of it. Identification heard about it however in no way looked into it. So truly in 1977 within the UK for the period of the prime time hour of an evening news application on Southern television, any person who called himself Vrillon from the Ashtar Galactic Command, just about hacked the stations broadcast to relay a 6 min message to the human race. Now there are numerous folks debunking this and lots of men and women within the ufology community who feel it’s legit. On this episode good smash down what happened and explore all possibilities to discover if this was an actual broadcast from an extraterrestrial, or only a group of humans having some enjoyable. Nonetheless, it’s fairly worth noting here that no person has ever been caught or charged for the so-referred to as crime of hacking this television station broadcast. To take this even additional, to nowadays nobody even is aware of who was once in the back of this nor has anybody stepped ahead claiming accountability. Good, The CIA and MI6 might, which brings up even more questions, comparable to – are they that incapable that they couldnt in finding the culprits, or are they hiding it? And so as to add to that, the CIA, MI6, FBI, even Mossad, to at the present time cant determine who the so-referred to as LARP is playing Qanon. So both they arent that in a position or dont want to reveal the truth, however we digress. Or dont be aware of Or dont comprehend I mean if it’s a army operation, theyre masking their tracks proper So anyway getting back to the normal story what did this Vrillon dude in reality say on the broadcast? Well rather a lot virtually. Southern TVs news anchor Andrew Gardner was giving the evening information when he used to be interrupted by way of a voice giving a message to the human race. Now what is exciting is that some individuals heard a fully different title rather than Vrillon Some heard the names of Gramaha, Bramaha, Gillon, Asteron, Ashtar, or even the name Vorilhon which we will be able to get into soon. Unfortunately, there doesnt appear to be an exact recording of the voice. The voice that we right here on all of the YouTube videos is a reenactment even though the video is certainly actual. Additionally in Superman the man of steel, they referenced this when Zod got here on the tv to converse to humans. Except Zods message was a threatening one whereas Vrillon is apparently a peaceful one. Proper in a nutshell the message used to be a warning to the human race to disarm and discontinue our nuclear and atomic weapons of mass destruction earlier than it was too late. He absolutely says The wastes from atomic vigor programs will poison your planet for a lot of enormous quantities of your years to come," and likewise we need to preclude disasters that threaten our world if we preserve going with nuclear weapons. What is much more interesting is that he really talks in regards to the pleasant awakening, in which he says: that is so as that you may share within the high-quality awakening, as the planet passes into the new Age of Aquarius. Now the Age of Aquarius can also be a term we hear lots about. For those of you who’re questioning – what the heck is that this jargon of Age of Aquarius anyway? Well in our interviews with Laura Eisenhower, who talks rather a lot about this, the Age of Aquarius, is a time interval of about every 25,000 years when the Earths vernal equinox point moves out of Pisces goes into Aquarius. And between you and i, I don’t have any proposal what I simply said. In layman’s phrases what this means is, we know that the Earths axis is slowly wobbling, and presently the vernal equinox factor is in Pisces. About each 25,000 years it changes. So about 50,000 years in the past it was once in Aries. Many consider we started this moving into Aquarius after 2012. Thanks for clearing that up. And although I nonetheless dont recognize what any of that means, Vrillon goes on to assert that the Age of Aquarius is a time of great peace and evolution of our human race but provided that your rulers are made conscious of the evil forces that may overshadow their judgments. So, in a nutshell the Age of Aquarius sounds ok to us. Yes we believe this can be a just right thing. He also states that most effective those who select to are living in peace will cross to the better geographical regions of religious evolution, and warns individuals of false prophets and guides working in our world who suck your power from you the vigour you call money and can put it to evil ends and give you nugatory dross in return. Appears like Illumidonkey madness and taxes to me. Yep. He additionally encourages folks to listen to their interior divine self, and be taught to be sensitive to the voice inside that can tell you what is actuality, what is confusion, chaos and untruth. He goes on to say they have got been observing us from above as they are the lights in our skies that we see wow. Vrillon also stresses which might be many beings around us and watching us, more than our scientists admit. He goes on to say we’re deeply concerned about you and your course toward the sunshine, and can do all we will to aid you. And encourages us to are living without fear and in harmony with each and every different.Now there are quite a few things we would like to contact on, but first lets speak about how this used to be viable, given this in the 70s and persons didnt have computers laying around like we do now. Southern Televisions signal was distinct in that it obtained its feed no longer over a difficult-wired connection however from a secondary transmitter on the Isle of Wight. So it used to be bouncing one sign off of a different. Which made it at risk of manipulation. Nevertheless, this couldnt just be pulled off via an man or woman at that time. The one humans who could quite do this could be organizations with a significant amount of cash, govt businesses, different broadcasting firms, or. Aliens. Whoa we gotta watch out using that phrase. We might get censored now. There was an investigation through the independent Broadcasting Authority, however consistent with the united statesIndependent, it is impossible to seek out the outcome. The IBA used to be changed in 1991 by way of the impartial television commission and ceased to exist after 2003 when it and others became a organization named Ofcom. The article states that they reached out to Ofcom, but they saved no files going again that far. So both the results have been hidden from the public, or lost and under no circumstances made public. Which begs the query why used to be it by no means made public if this was once this sort of enormous dilemma? Simply to notice there have been 2 other broadcast hacks that occurred following this within the 80s. One used to be any individual dressed as Max Headroom who was literally some dude in a mask simply being a donkey making obscene gestures and trying attention. The opposite was once the Captain midnight HBO interruption a year prior where this dude hacked in and had been upset about HBO having exorbitant prices for their subscription. At that time principally. What used to be it $12,ninety five at the moment, which interprets to about 30 greenbacks 40 bucks now. Its crazy. HBO smaht So whoever this Vrillon is seemed to need no credit score in any respect, and truthfully did it to deliver a message to the human race to warn us about blowing up our planet. For being one of the crucial first individuals to effectually hack a primetime station, it is type of selfless. However we do need to deliver into query the kind of strange religious motion known as Ralism which was centered in 1974 by way of Claude Vorilhon, who currently lives in France. Some propose this crew used to be at the back of it for the reason that of how equivalent Vorilhon and Vrillon sound. Im gonna begin calling that dude John Claude Vrillon. I imply, theyre both from France, Wait, Raelism, similar to Ra -El meaning solar/Saturn worship? If you happen to guys havent visible our Saturn episode or the Deep State series most often, you really ought to watch that to have an understanding of what that implies, this is lovely serious. Right good, handiest humans in this action would recognize, however here is their symbol for his or her faith. I imply dude that is a full on Swastika mixed into the famous person of David, which has a hexagon inside. This has warnings indicators all over it. And that isnt all you guys, guess where they’re placed, I mean that is the icing on the cake. Good enough Rob just take a wager, you could often get this. So if its occult stuff, Im gonna have got to i would wager Switzerland. Geneva Switzerland Oh man, pull it right out of the hat there. Theyre so predictable, it is ridiculous. Dude that just makes this way more suspicious Now to be fair, the Swastika is an historical symbol observed in practically all religions, and is an extraordinarily upright symbol representing our universe or our Milky approach. Hitler and the Deep State are obsessed with twisting and warping the whole thing for their possess use in order that they twisted it and reversed it warping the which means of all of these. Yeah Ive visible that signal on Buddha statues in China too proper So these are in every single place In India and in every single place else too however these guys are tremendous weird. I mean they dont feel in God or a divine creator and instead consider that these humanoid extraterrestrials created mankind, and so they think GMOs and Cloning, are a special factor for people. Correctly they even supported Monsanto in their GMO push. If that you can believe that I mean and that is simply the commencing, they even wrote books about this, but they are surely the founders of this unusual organization known as Clonaid which brags about creating the first human clone Eve within the mid 2000s. However oh my gosh you guys were gonna have to post a whole episode on this for our Edgeofwonder.Tv on account that we would have to convey up quite a few names related to it, and its just too loopy to submit on YouTube. Anyway even Michael Jackson went there and it used to be said by way of the Telegraph that he was obsessed with Cloning himself, and wanted to do it regardless of the price. So yea for our subscribers on edgeofwonder.Television be on the lookout for that one given that thats gonna be nuts. Additionally the Rapper child Buu, who claims he was cloned through Cloneaid, has this symbol tattooed on his chest.So now I cant drink Kool-support, and i dont wanna drink Cloneaid, thats for definite He even has a are living instagram post where he’s together with his different cloned self. I mean this simply keeps getting weirder. However getting back to this workforce, they consider transhumanism, genetic manipulation of people, along with sexual liberation are all excellent for us. They even wrote books all about this stuff. Additionally they motivate their contributors to be sexually open with each and every different, and likewise help sex schooling of children, showing them obtain sexual gratification. I mean quite that is just a prime case of preparing victims for something else, we dont wanna say anything too dangerous, however what is that? That is just very unusual, principally given the entire different. You understand there is far more to this too they also believe that Noahs arc was once a spaceship, the backyard of Eden was once an artificially developed continent by using aliens, and the Tower of Babel was a rocket ship that used to be supposed to arrive their creators home planet, and of direction aliens are our Gods. Now that appears like some Annudonkey insanity. They are also very anti-war which is why some suppose this staff would be accountable for the interrupted broadcast. However, they’d have got to be lovely tech savvy to drag this off again then I mean for real. However watching at what they are doing now, who they’re, and proudly owning clonaid which used to be possible due to an extremely gigantic nameless donation, probably there is some thing bigger backing them. However lets ask anything else. Who is that this Ashtar Galactic Command. Before we get into that we have got to convey up George van Tassel and who he was once. Tassel used to be an aircraft engineer establishing in 1927 for Douglas aircraft, then with Hughes and Lockheed. Soon Tassel befriended an eccentric German-American by means of the title of Frank Critzer in who made his own residence out of the huge Rock in the Mojave desolate tract. For the duration of the early days of World battle 1 Critzer used to be grew to become beneath investigation via the government and was once accused of being a German undercover agent. When neighborhood police got here to impeach him, he set off an explosion truely killing himself within the process. Tassel then bought the land around this large Rock and started to reside there along with his household and soon started to keep group meditations. It was once here when the staff virtually started to hear voices for the primary time. Quickly Tassel began to engage with a being named Ashtar who claimed to have a fleet of spacecraft and even a space station overseeing Earth. Some say the dark knight unidentified flying object is the gap station, now this used to be way before the 1977 broadcast, Tassels testimony about what Ashtar told him was once very similar to that broadcast. Then in June of 1952, he sent a series of letters to government companies warning that UFOs would quickly begin to fly over Washington DC, which additionally happened to be the equal 12 months he stated he met Ashtar. However this is the place the crazy part comes in, later that June there really used to be one of the crucial largest alien craft hobbies in American historical past. To this present day it has been closely suppressed in media even though hundreds witnessed it. A fleet of UFOs had been seen hovering over the Capitol constructing in DC. This was once a giant event and somehow in no way particularly bought the mainstream attention it deserved, consistent with the late William Tompkins who was once interviewed within the Above Majestic movie, these crafts had been virtually not piloted via aliens however with the aid of German soldiers. That is also had been the operation paperclip starts to particularly pan out. However that’s an complete different episode and we talked lots about it in our Majestic 12 episode together with some others. Tessel additionally used to be building The Integratron, and he said that he used to be aided by the writings of Nikola Tesla and was once also given these telepathic instructions from extraterrestrials. It is mentioned he it used to be an electrostatic generator for the purpose of rejuvenation and time journey. Unluckily, it was once not ever completed nor did he ever disclose the plans to any person on the right way to conclude it. He died of a unexpected heart assault although people nearly him are skeptical of this considering he continually looked to be in just right well being. In a nutshell Ashtar of the Galactic Command claims to be a simply benevolent being representing a gaggle of beings which can be all right here to help people on the planet sooner or later instances and to discontinue people from blowing themselves up. Additionally they comply with the legislation of the Divine Creator, and declare that they do not need to be often called any style of God like deities but more as our galactic family. They say they are here to protect the sunlight system from adversarial and dark extraterrestrial corporations, that’s ETs which might be only in service to self. Just like the Dracos. There are various who claimed to have either channeled or even met them in man or woman. In the guide on earth challenge: The Cosmic Awakening of light employees, it states this from the being who calls himself Ashtar: know that you’re a part of a significant universe so significant that even we are not able to do it justice with our descriptions. It goes on to say, we can assure you that it’s teeming with lifestyles and full of love, wisdom and inventive opportunity. Recognize that you’re valuable within the sight of your Creator that you are the Divine heirs to a kingly inheritance. – beautiful cool. Yeah thats beautiful cool Now whether or not you think that is as much as you. There are various things available in the market that appear to be excellent however are for sure now not. So like at all times we recommend you do your possess study and draw your possess conclusions about this. However have been gonna do an extra episode on who this lord Ashtar is We couldn’t fairly fit it all in this episode cuz it used to be just so much. In other areas although they do speak about how they cant suppose humans trash their bodies so much with the aid of smoking, consuming, and promiscuous sex that is rampant in our society. On the grounds that in addition they seem at our our bodies as being very divine like. We wanted to convey up whatever that not too long ago occurred in the information. The big apple submit published an editorial and video stating reliable confirmation from a spokesperson from the pentagon admitting that they certainly examine UFOs. Good theres a shock. This got here a year after the new york times so called bombshell in regards to the secret Pentagon alien ship application AATIP where studied and documented unidentified flying objects. We are announcing Bombshell in costs given that it didnt quite have the have an effect on they were expecting. Correct as a substitute of the world freaking out, many of the world simply mentioned, we already know about this secret area application, so speak about that! Nevertheless, the Navy are particularly the ones that appear to be dropping huge bombshells but no longer many humans are reporting on it. There are 2 gigantic documents that had been launched, one was a patent for an plane that literally defied gravity, and propelled itself utilizing robust electromagnetic waves and is triangular formed. Most of us within the flying saucers community think this is in reality disclosure of the TR-3B triangular aircraft wherein many locals in Hawaii advised us they see them all the time. There are also leaked photos of the plane resting in discipline 51 and some on aircraft carriers. Insider Corey Goode acknowledged a at the same time back that more of the public would to peer these in the air as the Navy slowly declassifies it much like how the Stealth Bomber was declassified. Besides these journey 1,000s of miles per hour and are capable to enter area and defy gravity. So we think that is the work of reverse engineering of unidentified flying object. I imply what else would it be. Also the Navy also released an article explaining to army personal how one can record a alien ship if they do see one. The factor of explaining that is that the UFOs incident in DC on the time isnt at all loopy if what the federal government is now saying in public is correct. So why has our govt been hiding this from us and why is the pentagon now popping out with this assertion? Apparently they are looking to manipulate the narrative which is why other insiders who’re leaking this data first, is actually a threat to them. After many insiders stepped forward such as invoice Cooper on words, it converted the publics questions from did Roswell happen? To now questions like why is the federal government nonetheless overlaying up Roswell and demanding solutions what the secret space program is? So the narrative has totally shifted and it’s up to us to put extra pressure on our governments to demand solutions into what this is and so these many different matters. We want full de-classification and full disclosure so please like, subscribe, and share this to get this information there. On account that YT is now censoring every person in our community like this. And considering of this censorship they have virtually lost over 70$ billion this quarter from their censoring all channels concerning these issues. Which they declare is lower than 1 percentage, however I mean 1 percent doesnt seem to add as much as $70 billion, loss of revenue. I mean simply supply me a destroy, also lets just point out that everyone goes to YouTube to look at all of those fringe content, youre not going there to peer CNN, youre not going there to look the historical past channel, youre literally going there to find all these content material you cant in finding in different places, so youre destroying your enterprise mannequin by censoring all of them, I imply why would you do that except you may have an agenda. Precisely, and on top of that, Alphabet lost eight% on the inventory market this quarter considering that of this. Not to point out that our friend @secureteam10 just acquired censored, good guys there’s numerous things we would have covered on this episode but we are gonna need to put some of that on our possess platform, similar to who’s really in the back of cloneaid, what they’re doing, noted humans involved, and the way they’re equipped to get away with the whole lot they’re doing. So that you could form of sum up this episode, on account that the voice on the recording isnt the common perhaps it was another title was actually used on this so known as devout workforce made the recording and modified the names to confuse all people Yea that’s a further manner of looking at it. Man I simply hope these clowns Raelism or some thing its known as didnt virtually do that and it was once actual. I hope so too. I imply it appears pretty real but Anyway thanks once more you guys for gazing and until subsequent time we will see you out. On the threshold of Max Headroom best .

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Alien Voice Hijacks TV Station's Broadcast from the ASHTAR Command [Part 1/2]

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Alien Voice Hijacks TV Station's Broadcast from the ASHTAR Command [Part 1/2]

Howdy all people welcomes to wait where is Rob? I dont recognize, i suppose i’m doing this one by myself. Good enough welcome to edge of surprise where the unusual meets the profound. I am your host Ben and on this episode. I would like to interrupt this broadcast to give the sector an awfully particular announcement I just discovered the pleasant inexpensive taco situation on eighth avenue. Err, well that’s fine Rob but we aren’t talking about food here, we have got to do this episode on the 1977 broadcast from the Ashtar Command.Dude there were Tacos in seventy seven lets roll Radiofaces intro and in poor health finish up these tacos and are available and meet you in the place of business in a 2d this is the voice of Vrillon, the representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command talking to you. What could this message for the human race really imply? And the way does it relate to our constellation? Who or what is the Ashtar Galactic Command and what different names might they go by way of? What if they are who they are presupposed to be what’s their cause right here and why did they try to make their presence recognized to us? Was once it readily a warning to make better choices sooner or later Or is anything much greater at stake? All of this and more simplest on the threshold of wonder! Wow you guys such an terrific intro. So not definite what number of of you guys knew about this, I didnt rather find out about it until after we began EOW. But what about you Rob I was once most effective vaguely conscious of it. Identification heard about it however in no way looked into it. So truly in 1977 within the UK for the period of the prime time hour of an evening news application on Southern television, any person who called himself Vrillon from the Ashtar Galactic Command, just about hacked the stations broadcast to relay a 6 min message to the human race. Now there are numerous folks debunking this and lots of men and women within the ufology community who feel it’s legit. On this episode good smash down what happened and explore all possibilities to discover if this was an actual broadcast from an extraterrestrial, or only a group of humans having some enjoyable. Nonetheless, it’s fairly worth noting here that no person has ever been caught or charged for the so-referred to as crime of hacking this television station broadcast. To take this even additional, to nowadays nobody even is aware of who was once in the back of this nor has anybody stepped ahead claiming accountability. Good, The CIA and MI6 might, which brings up even more questions, comparable to – are they that incapable that they couldnt in finding the culprits, or are they hiding it? And so as to add to that, the CIA, MI6, FBI, even Mossad, to at the present time cant determine who the so-referred to as LARP is playing Qanon. So both they arent that in a position or dont want to reveal the truth, however we digress. Or dont be aware of Or dont comprehend I mean if it’s a army operation, theyre masking their tracks proper So anyway getting back to the normal story what did this Vrillon dude in reality say on the broadcast? Well rather a lot virtually. Southern TVs news anchor Andrew Gardner was giving the evening information when he used to be interrupted by way of a voice giving a message to the human race. Now what is exciting is that some individuals heard a fully different title rather than Vrillon Some heard the names of Gramaha, Bramaha, Gillon, Asteron, Ashtar, or even the name Vorilhon which we will be able to get into soon. Unfortunately, there doesnt appear to be an exact recording of the voice. The voice that we right here on all of the YouTube videos is a reenactment even though the video is certainly actual. Additionally in Superman the man of steel, they referenced this when Zod got here on the tv to converse to humans. Except Zods message was a threatening one whereas Vrillon is apparently a peaceful one. Proper in a nutshell the message used to be a warning to the human race to disarm and discontinue our nuclear and atomic weapons of mass destruction earlier than it was too late. He absolutely says The wastes from atomic vigor programs will poison your planet for a lot of enormous quantities of your years to come," and likewise we need to preclude disasters that threaten our world if we preserve going with nuclear weapons. What is much more interesting is that he really talks in regards to the pleasant awakening, in which he says: that is so as that you may share within the high-quality awakening, as the planet passes into the new Age of Aquarius. Now the Age of Aquarius can also be a term we hear lots about. For those of you who’re questioning – what the heck is that this jargon of Age of Aquarius anyway? Well in our interviews with Laura Eisenhower, who talks rather a lot about this, the Age of Aquarius, is a time interval of about every 25,000 years when the Earths vernal equinox point moves out of Pisces goes into Aquarius. And between you and i, I don’t have any proposal what I simply said. In layman’s phrases what this means is, we know that the Earths axis is slowly wobbling, and presently the vernal equinox factor is in Pisces. About each 25,000 years it changes. So about 50,000 years in the past it was once in Aries. Many consider we started this moving into Aquarius after 2012. Thanks for clearing that up. And although I nonetheless dont recognize what any of that means, Vrillon goes on to assert that the Age of Aquarius is a time of great peace and evolution of our human race but provided that your rulers are made conscious of the evil forces that may overshadow their judgments. So, in a nutshell the Age of Aquarius sounds ok to us. Yes we believe this can be a just right thing. He also states that most effective those who select to are living in peace will cross to the better geographical regions of religious evolution, and warns individuals of false prophets and guides working in our world who suck your power from you the vigour you call money and can put it to evil ends and give you nugatory dross in return. Appears like Illumidonkey madness and taxes to me. Yep. He additionally encourages folks to listen to their interior divine self, and be taught to be sensitive to the voice inside that can tell you what is actuality, what is confusion, chaos and untruth. He goes on to say they have got been observing us from above as they are the lights in our skies that we see wow. Vrillon also stresses which might be many beings around us and watching us, more than our scientists admit. He goes on to say we’re deeply concerned about you and your course toward the sunshine, and can do all we will to aid you. And encourages us to are living without fear and in harmony with each and every different.Now there are quite a few things we would like to contact on, but first lets speak about how this used to be viable, given this in the 70s and persons didnt have computers laying around like we do now. Southern Televisions signal was distinct in that it obtained its feed no longer over a difficult-wired connection however from a secondary transmitter on the Isle of Wight. So it used to be bouncing one sign off of a different. Which made it at risk of manipulation. Nevertheless, this couldnt just be pulled off via an man or woman at that time. The one humans who could quite do this could be organizations with a significant amount of cash, govt businesses, different broadcasting firms, or. Aliens. Whoa we gotta watch out using that phrase. We might get censored now. There was an investigation through the independent Broadcasting Authority, however consistent with the united statesIndependent, it is impossible to seek out the outcome. The IBA used to be changed in 1991 by way of the impartial television commission and ceased to exist after 2003 when it and others became a organization named Ofcom. The article states that they reached out to Ofcom, but they saved no files going again that far. So both the results have been hidden from the public, or lost and under no circumstances made public. Which begs the query why used to be it by no means made public if this was once this sort of enormous dilemma? Simply to notice there have been 2 other broadcast hacks that occurred following this within the 80s. One used to be any individual dressed as Max Headroom who was literally some dude in a mask simply being a donkey making obscene gestures and trying attention. The opposite was once the Captain midnight HBO interruption a year prior where this dude hacked in and had been upset about HBO having exorbitant prices for their subscription. At that time principally. What used to be it $12,ninety five at the moment, which interprets to about 30 greenbacks 40 bucks now. Its crazy. HBO smaht So whoever this Vrillon is seemed to need no credit score in any respect, and truthfully did it to deliver a message to the human race to warn us about blowing up our planet. For being one of the crucial first individuals to effectually hack a primetime station, it is type of selfless. However we do need to deliver into query the kind of strange religious motion known as Ralism which was centered in 1974 by way of Claude Vorilhon, who currently lives in France. Some propose this crew used to be at the back of it for the reason that of how equivalent Vorilhon and Vrillon sound. Im gonna begin calling that dude John Claude Vrillon. I imply, theyre both from France, Wait, Raelism, similar to Ra -El meaning solar/Saturn worship? If you happen to guys havent visible our Saturn episode or the Deep State series most often, you really ought to watch that to have an understanding of what that implies, this is lovely serious. Right good, handiest humans in this action would recognize, however here is their symbol for his or her faith. I imply dude that is a full on Swastika mixed into the famous person of David, which has a hexagon inside. This has warnings indicators all over it. And that isnt all you guys, guess where they’re placed, I mean that is the icing on the cake. Good enough Rob just take a wager, you could often get this. So if its occult stuff, Im gonna have got to i would wager Switzerland. Geneva Switzerland Oh man, pull it right out of the hat there. Theyre so predictable, it is ridiculous. Dude that just makes this way more suspicious Now to be fair, the Swastika is an historical symbol observed in practically all religions, and is an extraordinarily upright symbol representing our universe or our Milky approach. Hitler and the Deep State are obsessed with twisting and warping the whole thing for their possess use in order that they twisted it and reversed it warping the which means of all of these. Yeah Ive visible that signal on Buddha statues in China too proper So these are in every single place In India and in every single place else too however these guys are tremendous weird. I mean they dont feel in God or a divine creator and instead consider that these humanoid extraterrestrials created mankind, and so they think GMOs and Cloning, are a special factor for people. Correctly they even supported Monsanto in their GMO push. If that you can believe that I mean and that is simply the commencing, they even wrote books about this, but they are surely the founders of this unusual organization known as Clonaid which brags about creating the first human clone Eve within the mid 2000s. However oh my gosh you guys were gonna have to post a whole episode on this for our Edgeofwonder.Tv on account that we would have to convey up quite a few names related to it, and its just too loopy to submit on YouTube. Anyway even Michael Jackson went there and it used to be said by way of the Telegraph that he was obsessed with Cloning himself, and wanted to do it regardless of the price. So yea for our subscribers on edgeofwonder.Television be on the lookout for that one given that thats gonna be nuts. Additionally the Rapper child Buu, who claims he was cloned through Cloneaid, has this symbol tattooed on his chest.So now I cant drink Kool-support, and i dont wanna drink Cloneaid, thats for definite He even has a are living instagram post where he’s together with his different cloned self. I mean this simply keeps getting weirder. However getting back to this workforce, they consider transhumanism, genetic manipulation of people, along with sexual liberation are all excellent for us. They even wrote books all about this stuff. Additionally they motivate their contributors to be sexually open with each and every different, and likewise help sex schooling of children, showing them obtain sexual gratification. I mean quite that is just a prime case of preparing victims for something else, we dont wanna say anything too dangerous, however what is that? That is just very unusual, principally given the entire different. You understand there is far more to this too they also believe that Noahs arc was once a spaceship, the backyard of Eden was once an artificially developed continent by using aliens, and the Tower of Babel was a rocket ship that used to be supposed to arrive their creators home planet, and of direction aliens are our Gods. Now that appears like some Annudonkey insanity. They are also very anti-war which is why some suppose this staff would be accountable for the interrupted broadcast. However, they’d have got to be lovely tech savvy to drag this off again then I mean for real. However watching at what they are doing now, who they’re, and proudly owning clonaid which used to be possible due to an extremely gigantic nameless donation, probably there is some thing bigger backing them. However lets ask anything else. Who is that this Ashtar Galactic Command. Before we get into that we have got to convey up George van Tassel and who he was once. Tassel used to be an aircraft engineer establishing in 1927 for Douglas aircraft, then with Hughes and Lockheed. Soon Tassel befriended an eccentric German-American by means of the title of Frank Critzer in who made his own residence out of the huge Rock in the Mojave desolate tract. For the duration of the early days of World battle 1 Critzer used to be grew to become beneath investigation via the government and was once accused of being a German undercover agent. When neighborhood police got here to impeach him, he set off an explosion truely killing himself within the process. Tassel then bought the land around this large Rock and started to reside there along with his household and soon started to keep group meditations. It was once here when the staff virtually started to hear voices for the primary time. Quickly Tassel began to engage with a being named Ashtar who claimed to have a fleet of spacecraft and even a space station overseeing Earth. Some say the dark knight unidentified flying object is the gap station, now this used to be way before the 1977 broadcast, Tassels testimony about what Ashtar told him was once very similar to that broadcast. Then in June of 1952, he sent a series of letters to government companies warning that UFOs would quickly begin to fly over Washington DC, which additionally happened to be the equal 12 months he stated he met Ashtar. However this is the place the crazy part comes in, later that June there really used to be one of the crucial largest alien craft hobbies in American historical past. To this present day it has been closely suppressed in media even though hundreds witnessed it. A fleet of UFOs had been seen hovering over the Capitol constructing in DC. This was once a giant event and somehow in no way particularly bought the mainstream attention it deserved, consistent with the late William Tompkins who was once interviewed within the Above Majestic movie, these crafts had been virtually not piloted via aliens however with the aid of German soldiers. That is also had been the operation paperclip starts to particularly pan out. However that’s an complete different episode and we talked lots about it in our Majestic 12 episode together with some others. Tessel additionally used to be building The Integratron, and he said that he used to be aided by the writings of Nikola Tesla and was once also given these telepathic instructions from extraterrestrials. It is mentioned he it used to be an electrostatic generator for the purpose of rejuvenation and time journey. Unluckily, it was once not ever completed nor did he ever disclose the plans to any person on the right way to conclude it. He died of a unexpected heart assault although people nearly him are skeptical of this considering he continually looked to be in just right well being. In a nutshell Ashtar of the Galactic Command claims to be a simply benevolent being representing a gaggle of beings which can be all right here to help people on the planet sooner or later instances and to discontinue people from blowing themselves up. Additionally they comply with the legislation of the Divine Creator, and declare that they do not need to be often called any style of God like deities but more as our galactic family. They say they are here to protect the sunlight system from adversarial and dark extraterrestrial corporations, that’s ETs which might be only in service to self. Just like the Dracos. There are various who claimed to have either channeled or even met them in man or woman. In the guide on earth challenge: The Cosmic Awakening of light employees, it states this from the being who calls himself Ashtar: know that you’re a part of a significant universe so significant that even we are not able to do it justice with our descriptions. It goes on to say, we can assure you that it’s teeming with lifestyles and full of love, wisdom and inventive opportunity. Recognize that you’re valuable within the sight of your Creator that you are the Divine heirs to a kingly inheritance. – beautiful cool. Yeah thats beautiful cool Now whether or not you think that is as much as you. There are various things available in the market that appear to be excellent however are for sure now not. So like at all times we recommend you do your possess study and draw your possess conclusions about this. However have been gonna do an extra episode on who this lord Ashtar is We couldn’t fairly fit it all in this episode cuz it used to be just so much. In other areas although they do speak about how they cant suppose humans trash their bodies so much with the aid of smoking, consuming, and promiscuous sex that is rampant in our society. On the grounds that in addition they seem at our our bodies as being very divine like. We wanted to convey up whatever that not too long ago occurred in the information. The big apple submit published an editorial and video stating reliable confirmation from a spokesperson from the pentagon admitting that they certainly examine UFOs. Good theres a shock. This got here a year after the new york times so called bombshell in regards to the secret Pentagon alien ship application AATIP where studied and documented unidentified flying objects. We are announcing Bombshell in costs given that it didnt quite have the have an effect on they were expecting. Correct as a substitute of the world freaking out, many of the world simply mentioned, we already know about this secret area application, so speak about that! Nevertheless, the Navy are particularly the ones that appear to be dropping huge bombshells but no longer many humans are reporting on it. There are 2 gigantic documents that had been launched, one was a patent for an plane that literally defied gravity, and propelled itself utilizing robust electromagnetic waves and is triangular formed. Most of us within the flying saucers community think this is in reality disclosure of the TR-3B triangular aircraft wherein many locals in Hawaii advised us they see them all the time. There are also leaked photos of the plane resting in discipline 51 and some on aircraft carriers. Insider Corey Goode acknowledged a at the same time back that more of the public would to peer these in the air as the Navy slowly declassifies it much like how the Stealth Bomber was declassified. Besides these journey 1,000s of miles per hour and are capable to enter area and defy gravity. So we think that is the work of reverse engineering of unidentified flying object. I imply what else would it be. Also the Navy also released an article explaining to army personal how one can record a alien ship if they do see one. The factor of explaining that is that the UFOs incident in DC on the time isnt at all loopy if what the federal government is now saying in public is correct. So why has our govt been hiding this from us and why is the pentagon now popping out with this assertion? Apparently they are looking to manipulate the narrative which is why other insiders who’re leaking this data first, is actually a threat to them. After many insiders stepped forward such as invoice Cooper on words, it converted the publics questions from did Roswell happen? To now questions like why is the federal government nonetheless overlaying up Roswell and demanding solutions what the secret space program is? So the narrative has totally shifted and it’s up to us to put extra pressure on our governments to demand solutions into what this is and so these many different matters. We want full de-classification and full disclosure so please like, subscribe, and share this to get this information there. On account that YT is now censoring every person in our community like this. And considering of this censorship they have virtually lost over 70$ billion this quarter from their censoring all channels concerning these issues. Which they declare is lower than 1 percentage, however I mean 1 percent doesnt seem to add as much as $70 billion, loss of revenue. I mean simply supply me a destroy, also lets just point out that everyone goes to YouTube to look at all of those fringe content, youre not going there to peer CNN, youre not going there to look the historical past channel, youre literally going there to find all these content material you cant in finding in different places, so youre destroying your enterprise mannequin by censoring all of them, I imply why would you do that except you may have an agenda. Precisely, and on top of that, Alphabet lost eight% on the inventory market this quarter considering that of this. Not to point out that our friend @secureteam10 just acquired censored, good guys there’s numerous things we would have covered on this episode but we are gonna need to put some of that on our possess platform, similar to who’s really in the back of cloneaid, what they’re doing, noted humans involved, and the way they’re equipped to get away with the whole lot they’re doing. So that you could form of sum up this episode, on account that the voice on the recording isnt the common perhaps it was another title was actually used on this so known as devout workforce made the recording and modified the names to confuse all people Yea that’s a further manner of looking at it. Man I simply hope these clowns Raelism or some thing its known as didnt virtually do that and it was once actual. I hope so too. I imply it appears pretty real but Anyway thanks once more you guys for gazing and until subsequent time we will see you out. On the threshold of Max Headroom best .

[rametarin]

chuckling.

So I saw another post I didn’t want to reblog to add my shit to, so I’ll just dump it here.

I am relieved and amused by the turn of events where the Woke Crowd(tm) have turned on white feminists. Not because there’s actually anything different or wrong about white girls doing the exact same stupid shit that the Feminists of Color do, but because of the niche white girls played in getting them and their stupid social discourse ideas traction in the greater discourse and discussions in the US.

They have depended entirely on gaslighting young girls into believing a host of garbage and embellishments and then injecting histrionics into the thing. All those stupid movies about some white girl (and sometimes guy) being hired as a teacher in a minority-majority, struggling school to “make a difference?”

First they tell them that being white is tantamount to being evil imperialists just defacto. If you’re white, you come from an irredeemable and evil community that even today impresses its evil whiteness on everybody else. That’s not hyperbole, that’s just what they say. Whether they define that by genetics or socio-cultural heritage, the result is the same. “I don’t hate you, I hate your culture!” As if they fucking know the whole culture enough to make such disgusting generalizations. And miraculously despite doing less evil for less time than other empires have been around, the evil of any of these other cultures does not affect the people of today. Only whiteness has a special kind of connection to the evil any other whiteness does, anywhere else in the world.

Then they tell them that as women and maybe not-heterosexuals that they’re oppwessed. So they occupy a special place and have a special responsibility to peck and harass their male brothers, fathers, cousins, uncles, etc. Like, over night. One minute they’re walking around in bedsheets as princess robes and the next 2-3 years they’re LARPing as DEEEEEP socially conscious types, jaded to the world by injustices and cyberpunk. You know, like teenagers do.

But while the White Feminists(tm) have spent the most time setting up get togethers, laying out snacks and being the hostesses of their big diverse feminist schtickfests, they’ve only been part of that inner circle due to a relationship of convenience with, say, the Black Liberationists. And generally any community that works to forwards their culture and ethnic background the same as any limp dick like Richard Spencer wants, just without the stigma of being a ‘--- supremacist.’

Well they aren’t allowed into that inner circle anymore. Sorry, white girl. You aren’t oppressed enough.

Are you also LGBT? Sorry, white girl/transboy, you’re still white.

Are you Jewish? Sorry, white girl/transboy, you’re still white (Unless you’re Jewish and PoC). You don’t get to be equal to them anymore as an “oppressed group,” since now you’re regarded as just an oppressor that’s trying to do the right thing. Which they think you should be doing anyway, and won’t reward you for. And will kinda-sorta tolerate you impassively and begrudgingly, so long as you continue to throw yourself on the ground supporting them and every mounting extremist thing they say people like you are responsible for doing, and responsible for fixing for them.

But you’re still not really invited to the group, and you’re told you’re not allowed to represent the group or speak for the group anymore. You may bring snacks and you may check your brothers/fathers/cousins for their privilege and wax histrionic at them and be an emotional bull in a china closet for their cause, but you may not be considered part of that oppressed group anymore. You’re a guest now. You aren’t a fellow protagonist world-saver. You’re a repentant world-ender.

And we’re going to see them be hypocrites to white feminists that won’t “get in line” to their new place in Intersectional Feminism. Passive aggressive, miraculously permitted 2 Minute Hate type posts among the Woke of white girls at tables. Kinda like how they feel permitted to body shame, sexually shame and mental health shame groups of white men.

For the first time ever, white girls are officially fair game just on the basis of being white girls. Conservative/republican/actively antithetical girl groups and affiliations have always been fair game, but they’ve always been opponents. Now they can just talk shit about any unaligned caucasian chick and imply they’re sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic oppressors, just because, “that’s the default setting of their culture.” The combination of shaming and accusing to try and convince them to more eagerly join the Intersectional fold, by demonstrating how girls that aren’t in their good graces get treated. Like shit. Like dogs that won’t stop pissing on the carpet. Like unrepentant sinners.

That vagina, the non-Christian affiliation, the not-conventional-sexuality- all those things are no longer special designators of being special oppressed minorities, ‘part of the struggle.’ All those things mean less than the damning whiteness of their existence. So now, white girls get to occupy the exact same “tolerated but not appreciated” status as Male Feminist Allies. They aren’t even allowed to vicariously feel like they’re contributing, they’re just moral supports for other people apparently “liberating themselves” and not resisting it.

And just like that, they’ve completely killed the reward and left only the mental angst and guilt complex. No more wielding their position like a bat and having any credibility as a ‘white ally’. No more lecturing boys about how pretending to be ninjas or shit is ‘offensive’ because it’s ‘orientalism’ and going on a tirade on behalf of the Asian community that can’t speak up in its own defense. All the work, none of the automatic ability to represent the oppressed, none of the credibility or praise in the in-groups for their Wokeness.

The entire headfucking system in America is falling apart. And the more African and Asian immigrants that hit the deck, the more said narratives will fall apart.

Soon all that will be left is a disjointed group of groups of people all trying to keep some semblance of a coalition together and floundering because everybody’s trying to ‘Get Theirs’ and there’s no unity, only entitlement, only narratives about how they’re The Most Oppressed and the most deserving of special rights above and beyond equality to meet their arbitrary oppressed needs, above and beyond regular society.

[jeramylarp]

Where Are All the Larpers?

Around 8 years ago, I began telling people I thought that larping was about to break into the mainstream, and that we’d see a large influx of new people coming into the hobby.  While I think that larping is more well known, and there are more people playing now than there have ever been...the explosion I anticipated never came to pass, and what’s more, I am no longer certain it will. Oh, I certainly hope it will, but after 8 years, I have begun to grow skeptical.   Like many of us, when I started larping, I would avoid describing what I did...not so much out of embarrassment, but because it was a secret cool thing I did, and honestly I just didn’t want to have to explain it...I didn’t know how.  This has not been true for a very long time now, and I will talk larping at little to no provocation with complete strangers.  With the movie Role Models, and the publicity garnered by large scale larp productions, most people at least have a vague concept of what larping is.  It has gotten easier to sell people on this crazy thing we do...but they aren’t biting in the way I would have expected. As someone who is relatively connected to the greater larp community, especially in the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania area, I am aware of a lot of projects coming down the pipe.  There are at least 6 organizations, that I know of, opening campaign larps within the area in the next year.  To put it bluntly, not all of them will survive.  The local market is saturated, and has been for a long time.  I could rattle off 20 larps that play within 2 hours of my home, most of them monthly or semi-monthly.  Unless one or more of these new games has cracked the code on drawing in new people into the hobby, only a few of them will likely survive beyond the first few events.  We are all drawing from the same pool of players, we aren’t bringing in enough new blood to sustain this kind of growth.   When I talked about the larp explosion, I was expecting to see regular games pull in 500+ people.  At the time I was playing a game that was seeing 200+ every event, during an era of far less visibility, so this didn’t feel like much of a stretch...and yet, it never happened.  Even the biggest larps in my area, Knight Realms and Dystopia Rising, don’t really see those kind of numbers (with the exception of national events).  What’s more, after some initial success, we’re seeing increasingly lukewarm responses to blockbuster larps in the US.  It has me wondering if we are merely a novelty for the wider world, one whose appeal is starting to wear off.

Part of my concern is the average age of a larper today.  When I started 15 or so years ago, I’d say the average larper (in my area) was around 19 years old.  Now I think the average age is somewhere closer to 30.  We’re not pulling in younger players in the numbers the local larp economy requires.  No one is ever more excited to be part of a new thing than they are when they are in their late teens and early twenties...but by and large these are not the people who are coming out to play our games.  Larping has aged along with me, and while I appreciate some of social advantages of that, I can’t help but worry about the long term sustainability of the hobby...or at the very least campaign larping.

One of the very first pieces of advertising we ever did was going out to a local comic con.  It was a small con, perhaps 500 people walked through that door all day.  We got face time with a few dozen.  Not a single person ever came out to play.  We had better success at later convention, but for that first convention we did everything right, had incredible contact, and none of that turned into someone showing up at an event.  Why?  There are a few likely causes.  1. Every group of people needs a catalyst, someone who pushes them to try something new...it is always easier to do nothing, even when you are excited to try something new.  I am that person sometimes.  I understand.  2. People who go to a comic con have already sort of decided what their time consuming hobby is.  I suspect this is part of the reason why there isn’t as much crossover with the cosplay community as one might think.  

Another piece of the greater puzzle may have to do with attrition.  Larps are notoriously awful at retaining new players, even good larps have a more than 50% attrition rate.  I remember one event a long time ago when more than 20 new players showed up one event for a larp I was attending, not a single one of them ever returned.  This was a game that was pulling an average of 80 people per event, and suddenly 20 people show up and not one of them was ever enticed to come out again by the experience.  So, it could be some of the numbers I was expecting did materialize, but never quite got more than a toe into the water before a larp piranha bit it off.   I live between 2 major metropolitan areas, Philadelphia and New York.  Between the two of them is the highest population density state in the country.  There are around 20 million people living in the area.  Of that 20 million, maybe 5000 (if I am being generous) are regular larpers.  This means that roughly .025 percent of people larp, or 1 out of every 4000 people.  That is...disheartening to me.   When larp infects a group of friends, the contagion spreads quickly, but does peter out eventually...after all, most of us only have so many connections.  I’ve seen this happen so many times.  This is the fundamental way our hobby grows.  Friends help you stay excited about the thing you just did, they keep you invested, keep you going back, provide you with support.  But we need to get better at spreading the infection, find those groups of people who have this unnamed desire to explore, meet cool people, and hit their friends with plumbing supplies.  Bridging this gap, and finding a way to make these initial connections is what we need to do in order to expand our hobby, and hopefully see the explosion I dreamed of all those years ago. 

[encounter21]

Whose job is it anyway? On the nature of ‘fun’

This is a slight departure from my normal rants about game design, because I’m going to touch on what I think is good etiquette both as crew and player as well as my normal opinions on being a ref. That is because I’m going to attempt to answer the age old question of: Whose responsibility is it to make sure the game is fun? It is not a simple question to answer, because it isn’t entirely one person’s job. The running of a successful game requires some work on the parts of everyone involved, be they refs, crew or players.

Refs: I have talked about this at greater length elsewhere, but I think its worth mentioning a few points. Alot of people feel that making sure the game is fun *is* the refs responsibility. I would say it is more accurate to say that the refs job it to make sure the players *can* have fun. 

This is I feel more dependent on running the game you sold rather than micromanaging each players experience. If the players have shown up expecting a nice regency picnic, then you should give them a nice regency picnic, not horrible grim survival horror scenario (unless you sold grim regency survival horror picnic larp, cause I would totally go to that). 

If players come to you with complaints, you should hear them out. Assess why they are not having a good time. If they are asking for advantages you are not giving other players*, or for you to do something that is outside the tone and scope of the game, ignoring their requests is most likely better for the game as a whole. Remember your player base is bigger than any individual person, and you have a responsibility to the greater whole.

If you notice players not getting engaged, try to assess why. Aiming plots at people who seem to be having trouble getting involved is legitimate, but again you need to take a step back and look at how this will affect the game as a whole. At a fest larp running a plot solely for one person is a waste of crew resources, at a smaller game it is a good way to get people involved. 

The Ref’s role is to provide a framework for fun

The Crew: I have alot of feelings about crew.  Crew make your game run. They are important and should be treated as such. 

Having said that, crew have a job to do, and part of that job is remembering that if you are crewing you are not playing. There is a difference. NPCs should by all means be fully fleshed out. Make them real, that adds very much to the game. Give your NPCs motivations, drive. Don’t just role over and let the players win. BUT remember you are ultimately there to help the players have fun.

Some people talk about Larp in terms of ‘time in the spotlight’. I think this is very useful when thinking about the difference between crewing and playing. Crew should not be taking spotlight time away from the players. The game is not about NPCs. It is about the players. This means crew should not be solving problems, they should not be the big damn heroes. NPCs should be the sidekicks, the footnotes, the strange encounters that move the story along. Even if they are big and grand (I thinking of bad guys mainly here, but I guess gods, royalty ect) their interactions should still primarily be about the players experience not theirs. 

This doesn’t mean crew roles shouldn’t be fun. Ultimately any crew role you write in should be enjoyable for the crew (If its not, a ref should do it. Shit roles are for refs. Cool ones are for crew.). It just means crew often need to take a step back from the spotlight.

Crew also need to remember to come back and check in occasionally. Do not become an accidental PC. Random villager #5 does not need to hang around with the players for 8 hours. When crewing ask yourself 1) what is this adding to the player experience 2) Have I done what the refs told me to do 3)Will continuing this encounter ad anything more to the game

The Players: Ultimately I believe players are the ones most responsible for their own fun. Everyone likes different types of game. Players should make sure they go to games that sound like their jam (I know this sounds obvious, but I think sometimes people want to do the *cool* thing or the thing all their friends want to go to and make themselves miserable). Players should make sure they buy into the game (don’t show up to a regency tea party in space marine armor playing a murder bunny). Players should try and make sure their roleplay is inclusive (important note: you can be inclusive while playing an utter dick. I don’t by any means mean you need to play a nice character who loves everyone. In fact I’m of the opposite opinion in most cases.). Being inclusive is about making sure you

1) Don’t hoard plot. Ask other characters for help, advice, or simply to get involved. Delegation is big and clever. Spread the angst. If you have documents, don’t just sit on them, blackmail someone, show someone, ‘accidentally’ drop them. 

2) Try to avoid shutting people out. You have a right to only roleplay with who you want to play with, but if your problem is IC I advise playing that hatred in a way that lets you still interact with the person (snide comments, mean girls type roleplay, challenging them to a duel).

3) Share the spotlight. Let other people be awesome. 

TL:DR

Crewing, Reffing and Playing are all distinct experiences that require different approaches to the game

Refs are there to make sure the game runs

Crew are there to give players a framework

Players are there to do their thing, but should buy into the game

All three roles are responsible for making sure a game is fun, but the biggest responsibility is on the player.

*Its worth noting here, I am not talking about making games more accessible for people with disabilities. That’s a legitimate complaint, and you should always try to make your games accessible.

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Rhodesians Never Die, but Rhodesia is Dead and Gone

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The White nations of Africa cannot be saved. But the people can be.

by Goy Rogers

The coup that isn’t a coup in Zimbabwe against Robert Mugabe’s person has prompted a lot of discussion in Alt Right circles about the southern part of Africa and, more importantly to us, the standing of White people therein. Perhaps the most LARPy thing that I have encountered is that since Mugabe is prevaricating about stepping down, intervention would be justified and a re-establishment of a White minority government. Charles Manson’s plot of a White-led Reconquista after Black-led collapse applied to Africa. This. Is. Absurd. Full Stop. Put away the short shorts and put down your FAL FN. Rhodesia is not coming back and it never will.

While it is true that there are many older Blacks in Zimbabwe who fondly remember the days of Ian Smith, and even those who wish that the White farmers would return to the country, it is foolish to think that this coup means anything positive for the White population of Zimbabwe or a change in the fortunes of White Africa. The elements of Zimbabwe’s army which are putting the screws to Mugabe have said that the land belongs to the “veterans” (read: floppies who got butchered in the Bush wars and/or Mugabe’s own death squads). Something tells me that the land in question will not come from the Blacks it was given to by the previous regime, if indeed Mugabe even leaves, which is far from a given, as we’ve seen this song and dance before.  His resignation was submitted on 11/21, but I’ll believe he’s gone when his plane touches down in South Africa or his corpse gets dragged through the streets of Harare.

I’ll allow for the possibility that my cynicism is completely unfounded. Maybe Mugabe actually follows through on his resignation, or better yet gets the Gaddafi treatment. Then a new ZANU government comes in and not only affirms the property rights of the 30,000 White people still living in Zimbabwe (unlikely due to their communism), but encourages Rhodies living abroad to come back. These freedoms realized, Zimbabwe then becomes like Botswana or Namibia, and with increased White influence, the economy starts to recover. If all these things happen, we are still talking about a pause in the general decline in the situation of whites in Africa. The intellectual disparity between Blacks and Whites will not go away. The Blacks will never be as successful as the Rhodies thanks to a thirty-point IQ differential. Marxism is categorically a failure, but the Afro-centric Marxism of Southern Africa has shown itself to be an even greater failure, something few people who had seen the USSR and Mao’s China had thought possible. When the problems associated with Afrocentric Marxism inevitably crop up (pun intended, because Blacks cannot farm, literally not even to save their own lives), we all know who gets blamed and who gets their property and lives taken.

What does the coup really mean for White Africans? Most likely nothing or possibly even a negative development. Most of the remaining farmers in Zimbabwe are small-holders, with the large scale commercial farmers stripped of their property, and laws exist which prevent the establishment of new White-owned corporate farms. The best way to fix the economy and the endemic famine problem would be to permit the White farmers to once again commercialize. That’s not an endorsement of capitalism, mind you, just a recognition of African reality, given the Black man’s patent inability to produce enough food to feed himself.  Without the White man’s excess production, the Black man has nothing to parasite off, save his own body. The new government would do well to undo the Mugabe efforts to destroy the White farmers. But they’re just as likely to keep the status quo or enact laws which cause further harm to Whites.

Let’s pretend for a second that Afrocentric communists are not 70 IQ Marxists and a pro-White path is taken. This does not change the fact that the White minority is the eternal scapegoat for any African regime. The next time something goes wrong, or if the Rhodies become too successful again, expropriation lurks right around the corner. The Negroes do not understand the ideology of Marx. Their desires are those of a toddler. White man has thing. Black man wants thing. Allowing the Whites to prosper once more in Zimbabwe will only renew this animalistic urge.

This is a reality that applies beyond Zimbabwe. South Africa’s ANC, another anti-White communist regime, has been accelerating calls for taking the property of Whites and giving it to Blacks. Perhaps the gravest danger comes not in the guise of collectivism nor economic redistribution to the lowly Black, but in the form of the roving death squads attacking the White farmers in SA. These attacks have increased almost every year since Nelson Mandela was finally removed. The ANC government cannot or will not do anything to stop the murders and maiming.  And in the cruelest twist of fate, from an American perspective, the ANC will not permit the farmers to defend themselves. Private gun ownership has been greatly curtailed in South Africa and the penalties for injury or death inflicted in the act of self-defense are severe.

South African Whites face the direst peril at present, given that the Rhodies have already been put through the wringer. South Africa is in the process of failing as a state and the calls to strip the Whites of their property will only get louder. The violence will only get worse. This is catastrophic given the sheer number of our people living there. But even governments such as those of Botswana or Namibia, which are openly friendly to White farmers at present, do not represent a permanent situation. A change in head of state or a bad harvest and all the sudden the Whites in those countries could be staring down the same barrel as the men and women in Rhodesia once did and the men and women of South Africa have pointed at them at present.

Which brings me back around to my central premise: there is not going to be any grand reclamation of White Africa.  The Whites are far too few and too thoroughly disarmed to mount a stand in Zimbabwe (28,000), Angola (220,000), or Namibia (154,000). Animosity between Anglo and Boer in South Africa have prevented a White consolidation of a kind which could have at least guaranteed rule in local government, thanks to Boer refusal to move to Cape Town. Fighting is out. Political solutions in Africa are at best transitory due to the rapaciousness of the Negro population. The only option which remains is to get them the hell out and to either Europe or the United States. Preferably the latter from this writer’s perspective. They would be useful allies in our struggle against the Jewish plot to destroy us, as they have seen firsthand how that goes. Schlomo was integral in ending Apartheid, domestically and internationally. And they know only too well what being a White minority in a sea of mud truly entails.

I ask you to stop with the LARPing. Quit it with the pipe dreams of a Crusade against Black rule. We are not going to waltz over there with our semi-automatic rifles and put down 40 million Blacks. It is a regrettable situation, because as we all know, the Whites built these countries into civilized, prosperous entities from nothing. The Blacks now living there had not even come to Southern Africa before the White man. The White man has a better claim to it than the black. The Bushmen were the only humans present when Whites first arrived 400 years ago, and given their 54 IQ are even less capable than the regular Blacks.

It is not fair. It is not right. But White Africa is gone. We must save those who remain before it is too late. Contact your Representatives and your Senators. Make this problem known.  Many White Africans have tried and failed in their attempts to get an amnesty visa. A sick and twisted irony as the governments of Europe have plenty of room for Blacks and Muslims, but none for their own people. We cannot save their countries. We can save them.

If there’s a silver lining in this call for evacuation it is that the Blacks will get exactly what they deserve. They will long for the days of White rule when either starvation inflicted by their own ineptitude or total domination at the hands of the Chinese is the new African reality. On that day, somewhere years from now, we can point and laugh at them when they beg for our help. This is the future they chose.

Editor’s note: this article was originally published on identitydixie.com.

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"You would know what I am? I am the adjudicator of the sacred history with which you dared trifle." - Crystal Exarch, to Emet-Selch

This line always sends me. It was bad-ass in the moment but afterwards, when i thought about it... the sacred history. With which (Emet-Selch) dared to trifle.

The sacred history you're in the middle of trifling with? Because you all collectively decided you didn't like the one you got? So you came back to pull a mulligan on it? THAT sacred history?

Oh, Exarch, thy name is mud.

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The Limits of Power: Why I Probably Won’t Ban You from my Larp

I’ve been reading horror stories lately about people being kicked out of larps for reasons that are...dubious at best.  This is not to say that there aren’t legitimate reasons to be suspended or even banned from a larp, only that illegitimate reasons seem far more common.   In almost 5 Years of running a monthly campaign game we have banned only one person.  They were banned for stealing.  The proof was incontrovertible, and backed up by so many trusted sources as to leave no doubt of the offense. Since then, there have been a number of people that I would have banned, had I the power...except...I do have the power.  I can ban people on a whim if I wanted to.  We could go from playing a sci-fi game to a fantasy game tomorrow if I really wanted to run my game into the ground.  I usually do not want to run my game into the ground. It is perhaps trite, but it is true...”with great power comes great responsibility”.   Within the community I run, I have the power to do anything I want.  The only limitations I have are those I impose upon myself.  To that end here are a list of some of the limits. - I don’t play my own game.  As I said in my last post, I feel like it is a conflict of interest.  If you want more about that, go read said post. - I listen to my Staff and grant them authority that supersedes my authority in certain areas.  For instance, I am probably not the person you want talking to someone having breakdown.  And you certainly don’t want me running the kitchen.  If I’m in the way, it is perfectly reasonable for my Staff to ask me to leave.   - I don’t deal with certain things at events.  First and foremost, don’t bother asking me a rules question.  I don’t know the rules to my own game.  I wrote them down so I don’t have to remember.  If you want to know where something is, don’t ask me, ask Jenn, she is the place I keep a great deal of my memory...also, she probably put the thing in the place where it ought to be.  If you need tape though, you should probably ask Kitt.   - I don’t kick out people, or hand out punishment of any sort without cause that extends beyond my own petty desires, or for reasons that don’t involve the safety of the community. As the final one is the true subject of today’s post...let me explain in greater detail.

There have been a number of times that I would have liked to suspend or outright ban someone from our game.  In only one of these cases, I may have acted, but that person self selected them out of the community, so I was absolved of that responsibility.   Here are some examples of times when I might have acted, or perhaps wanted to act. Speaking to that person I might have kicked out.  They were toxic.  They made half the community miserable.  They were a stickler for the rules except when it came to their own use of them.  They ruined or brought down at least one mod per weekend.  For an entire year, 80% of the trouble I dealt with came directly from them.  My last straw came when they yelled at my partner of a matter that was entirely their fault.  I suspect that if they came to another game after that incident, I would have had a serious discussion with my Staff over their removal. There was someone who played one event.  They came to the event sick, wearing a cool but entirely impractical for combat larping costume.  They were miserable the entire time.  Their car broke down on the way home.  They complained that no one took the time to explain to them what was going on, or came to help them when his car broke down...both of which were verifiably untrue.  A few days after the event they publicly posted a long diatribe about how we might fix the game.  It contained several diagrams.  They never came to another game.  Though they did attempt to put together a revenge larp.  I never discussed banning them, but would have loved to...they were just the worst.   I had a falling out with a friend.  I felt betrayed on a fundamental level.  They were a regular player.  I never considered banning or suspending them...but I would have preferred to not see them for a few months.   We have several players whose worldview is not entirely inline with our community at large.  I don’t know what anyone expects me to do about that.  There have been times when action of some sort has been required, and has been done quietly behind the scenes, but I can’t control for worldview.  If someone brings that to an event, I can act...but I can’t control what people do online, and as long as that doesn’t effect what happens at events, doing anything is an incredibly slippery slope. There is a person, they came to a few events.  They don’t really understand larping.  You know the sort.  I’d prefer if they never came back.  But aside from rumors, I have no cause to ban or suspend them.   There is someone I loathe.  They’ve never done anything particularly wrong at our game.  I have just have a long and sustained loathing of them, and would prefer if they stopped existing altogether.  Not liking someone on a fundamental and almost primal level does not mean that I should ban them. In all of these cases I had the power to act.  I had the power to completely remove this person from the community, or at the very least the game.  But there are repercussions to every action.  I suspect that I would have been broadly supported in a few cases, had I decided to act.  I suspect that I would no longer have a game, if I had acted in other cases.   I don’t live in a void.  Just because I am in control doesn’t mean I’m immune to consequences.  Sometimes these are simply moral consequences that I have to deal with on my own.  I am the final judge, not just on the decision to act, but more often than not, on the rightness of inaction.  I can certainly ban someone because I think that they will cause problems...but I don’t.  I have to wait for that moment to come before I can act (I should like to say for the record that this would not apply in the most extreme cases)... But...more often than not, the problem takes care of itself.  I have an awesome community, and we don’t tend to suffer the sort of people who are truly toxic at events.  Those sorts tend to self select out of the community.   Just because I want to do a thing, doesn’t mean I ought to do a thing.  Out of game bullshit is usually not a good enough reason to ban someone.  My personal feelings are never a good enough reason on their own to ban someone.  Unsubstantiated drama is certainly not a good enough reason to ban someone.  Friends asking you to do it for them independent of anything else, is not a good enough reason to ban someone. When it comes down to it, if you own the experience, you are the arbiter, and your power “not to” should be wielded far more often than your power “to”.  

After some degree of controversy, I’m adding this addendum.   Of course there are serious and justifiable reasons to ban someone from a larp. Sexual harassment, bullying, and assault are all problems in our world, and most games will experience some shade of the above.  Likewise, there are some people who are simply too toxic to be allowed to remain in a stable community.   My post simply wasn’t about that side of things.  I rather took it as a given that such offenses were justified reasons for bringing down the ban hammer.  In no way was it my intent to suggest that sexual assault should go unpunished, or ignored in anyway.   This post was a point of view.  A viewpoint that has been skewed by a fair amount of bad actors when it comes the administration of larps.  Modern games are better equipped to deal with such problems, and tend to treat banning people with far more gravitas than those games I, and many of my friends, grew up with.  When I speak of horror stories and dubious reasons, I’m speaking largely, but not only, to that experience.  There are still games out there that ban people on a whim, and for spurious reasons that have little to do with something that I would consider a truly ban-worthy offense.  But again, that is my viewpoint.  I’m not trying to be right, I’m trying to provide an illustration for a world that I have seen far too often...and for better or worse, far more often than I’ve seen the converse of.   Thank you.